We could do Communion differently. You could come
forward and receive the elements up front. We could use a common cup, or unleavened bread from time to time. These are minor issues we can deal with when
the pastor gets a wild hair.
Then there are confessional issues, or things that define us as a church: we believe this
is a covenant renewal ceremony that involves our children. We really commune in
a spiritually nourishing way with the person of Christ at this table, but not
physically in the bread and wine.
Finally there are core Gospel truths this meal
re-presents: Jesus’s body was torn, He bled, He died, He laid down His life to
give you food and drink from the tree of life. Adam’s race needs this food and
drink, since we died spiritually after grabbing for ourselves food from the
other tree. Our misery is greater than we know; our deliverance is more than we
can understand. Our gratitude grows each time we partake.
But as we partake, receive one another in the Lord.
Discern His Body of believers communing around you. Live Gospel guidelines:
receive as brothers those who could be or are your enemies. Give them food and
drink, needed words, tangible love.
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