SCRIPTURES, POEMS, AND DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS
FOR
COMMUNION AND WORSHIP SERVICES
by
Latayne C. Scott
Introduction
For years now I have been writing poems about the experience of the communion service, and the correlative subjects of the sufferings of Christ, and my own identification with Him in my own personal trials. For many years, on Good Friday, I would write a poem about the crucifixion. These poems, like most of the others in this volume, were filed away, usually shared with no one but the Lord. But recently I have been strongly aware of the fact that the communion service, where we partake of Christ in a very real way, has had an increasingly greater effect on my thinking and on my life. I have felt an urgency to share some of these thoughts with other Christians. Those who know me well would say that this must be a strong urgency indeed, to make me open up this private part of myself. I found as I began to publish these poems in magazines, anthologies, songbooks, and other books that people told me that they, too, were affected by the Lord as they read my poems. I was reminded that a large portion of the Bible is written in poetic form, and that Jesus Himself quoted poetry. Then as I began to study New Testament Greek I found that Christians themselves are referred to as “poem as” in Ephesians 2:10. The New International Version of the Bible translates that word as “workmanship,” but my Linguistic Key to the New Testament expands that definition by saying that it also carries the meaning of “a work of art” or “poem.” So I began assembling the poems I have written over the last twenty-five years. In this book, they are arranged as “poem sandwiches: Scriptures, poems, and devotional thoughts designed to be used as a three-part unit.
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