Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Communion


So i'm busy planning a Communion service that is coming up on September 7th in the evening.  As   i am thinking and praying about it, i am trying to let the ritual truly sink in to my brain and heart.  Too often i get in the rut of planning services and doing things that we church people do without a whole lot of thought going into it.  So i have been thinking about what was going thru the minds of the people involved in the first communion.  WOW!! Jesus knowing that within days He would do what He came to earth to do.  He would fulfill what His short 33 year life on earth was all about.  We "do" communion quarterly or monthly or weekly... how ever it falls on the church calendar...Jesus was doing this out of a movement of His heart by the prodding of his Father.  The disciples had to be wondering what this new "thing" was.  You know...they had been doing the passover their entire lives.  But this time, Jesus takes the cup and bread and tells them that "this is My body...this is My blood"...What do you say to that?  What do we say to that?  I pray that on September 7th at 6pm, that Journey Church does not enter into this service because it is the proper time in the quarter to partake in Communion...But enter with the awe that the disciples must have felt when Jesus introduced it to them...What if that was possible?????

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