The Big Idea:
As we participate in the Lord’s Supper, we recognize that you and I are called to be a part of the body of Christ. We are the church. We belong to each other. We need each other. It is a celebration of our friendship and fellowship with each other. It is Christ and his sacrifice for us that unites us. It’s what makes us overlook each other’s faults. It’s what helps us put up with each other, love each other, forgive each other, and serve each other.
Main Points:
1. Raking communion alone misses an essential part of why Jesus instituted this act of remembering. The word communion means togetherness, affinity, fellowship, and sharing. The biblical act of taking the bread and cup that we call communion is about collective sharing and remembering. Jesus wants us to not only remember his sacrifice for our sins, but he also wants us to do so together.
2. As we take the bread and cup together we recognize we are a part of the body of Christ. We are his church and his people. Jesus intended for us to serve him together. There is to be a mutual love for Christ and one another. We cannot do this alone and apart from other believers.
3. I encourage you to find a group of believers with which you can share faith and life. God never intended for you to live the Christian life isolated from other believers. Communion is one of the blessings God wants you to experience.
Today’s Scripture Verse:
Matthew 26:26-28 - “Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
1 Corinthians 10:16-17 – “Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.”
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