Episode 407 - Show Notes
- Communion is important for us because it is about remembering. We are forgetful people. Jesus left us with a tangible, visual to help us remember what our faith and our shared Christian experience is all about
- Communion is about the church community, but it is also personal. It is a look back, a memorial. It is a look inward, a time to search our hearts, a time of confession and repentance. It is also a time to look forward to the task God has given us, and to the return of Christ.
- For the experience of communion to be meaningful, we must remember. We must reflect. We must remember that Jesus died for our sin. We must recall that he suffered greatly so that we could experience salvation and forgiveness.
- A person can go through the external motions of communion without experiencing the inward sense of fellowship and partnership that the Lord’s Supper was meant to express. You can participate in communion without having communion with God and others. In the same way you can sit down for a meal with your family, but mentally be in a completely different place, and ignore them.
- Communion is also a commitment to the unity of the body of Christ. You know, each of the disciples had their own relationship with Christ, but they also had a relationship with each other. Communion is a picture of the church. It is our fellowship with Christ, but it is also communion and community with each other. Clearly Jesus wanted us to come together.
- Communion is an anticipation that Christ will return for his church. As we participate in communion, we declare our faith in the future God has prepared for us. We are instructed to have this celebration together until the return of Christ.
Luke 19:22 Jesus said, “And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
1 Corinthians 11:26 – “For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
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