If you are celebrating All Saints Day on November 6, go to Year
A - All Saints Day. If you are following the lectionary for
November 6, keep reading. Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25 F Invite all
worshipers to join in the reading of this text. Take the role of
the Narrator, introduce the Joshua reader, and call the
congregation to imagine themselves among the Israelites who had
come out of the wilderness and were beginning to settle in the
Promised Land. Tell them that Joshua has called a meeting.
Instruct them to stand in place as the people would have stood.
Then, read the text together. Joshua 24: 1-3a, 14-25 Narrator:
Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and
summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of
Israel; and they presented themselves before God. And Joshua
said to all the people, Joshua: Now therefore revere the Lord,
and serve God in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the
gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt,
and serve the Lord. Now if you