Bus Stop Bob is the imaginary preacher that delivers Robert Tippett's interpretations of the Episcopal lectionary readings as a sermon each week. Bus Stop Bob's ministry began in 2013 and ended (for the most part) in 2017, after Robert had written interpretations for every possible reading from the Episcopal lectionary in a full 3-year cycle (years A, B, and C). Because he was not ordained by a religious organization, he himself was a church. He reflected the words of Jesus defining a "church" (ekklēsia) as being wherever his soul and his body was one with the soul of Jesus. That made Bus Stop Bob be a gathering of two or more in the name of Jesus. He found a captive audience at a generic bus stop, where workers had to wait for public transportation to take them to work on Sunday. This is where an Episcopal sermon of eight minutes is best offered (rather than an 'elevator pitch' it was a bus stop sermon). In those eight minutes, he took the 'silver thread' that connects four readings together (often chosen from seven possible readings, which he also mentioned in hos sermons, because all possiblities each week are linked by the same 'silver thread') and lets the listeners know the readings are not chosen by random, as a hodgepodge of Scripture chopped off in chunks and simmered in a crock pot for over thirty minutes (a là non-catholic branches of Christianity preach, roaming about the Bible like unwatched sheep, grazing where the Scripture seems greenest). That presentation style forms Scripture around a personal agenda; but the originators of the catholic lectionary schedules were led by a divine voice within. The Episcopal lectionary is then a three-year plan to lead a flock to become shepherds; and to do that a shepherd must bring the flock to the sheepfold where they will be released not as sheep, but as shepherds in the name of Jesus. Bus Stop Bob's sermons always end when the bus arrives; but he leaves the bus riders with encouragement to ponder what has been preached, as it often is not from the mainstream porridge of sermon intellect. To become a shepherd, one must learn to listen to the inner voice and follow it. Therefore, Bus Stop Bob's services are completely voluntary, with never a plate passed around for donations. He can do this because he goes to the people, without any overhead of a building of stone, brick and mortar with mortgages to pay off, salaries to make to buy cars, houses, and fancy priest robes (not to mention healthcare insurance). Just like Yahweh told Nathan to tell David, He likes the mobility of a tabernacle that moves where the flesh goes, Bus Stop Bob can preach aywhere at any time.