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If it ain’t grape @welchs it ain’t God’s will.
For years, I debated facts about communion. Wine or grape juice? One cup or many? Loaf or wafers. Prepared trays or the put together pre-package… and one day I looked up and realized that the debates were a distraction from the thing that matters!
Why aren’t we taking it more often? Jesus didn’t say, “Debate this.” He said, “Do this in remembrance of Me.”
Some churches celebrate the Lord’s Supper so infrequently that they can’t remember the last time they remembered Him around His table... typically producing people who don’t remember the last time they sensed his presence.
When communion becomes an occasional holiday observance, “Christians” can begin treating Jesus like an occasional priority.
No, I don’t believe the bread literally becomes His body or the cup literally becomes His blood in the catholic transubstantiation sense…But I also refuse to believe communion is merely an empty ritual.
Something sacred happens when the gathered church obeys Christ, examines itself, proclaims His death, remembers the gospel, and communes with Him by faith.
Can I explain every spiritual reality that takes place? No. There are mysteries in our faith that cannot be reduced to human language. But mystery doesn’t diminish reality.
May we never become so consumed with arguing over what’s in the cup that we forget to drink from it together.
- Jon Groves
For years, I debated facts about communion. Wine or grape juice? One cup or many? Loaf or wafers. Prepared trays or the put together pre-package… and one day I looked up and realized that the debates were a distraction from the thing that matters!
Why aren’t we taking it more often? Jesus didn’t say, “Debate this.” He said, “Do this in remembrance of Me.”
Some churches celebrate the Lord’s Supper so infrequently that they can’t remember the last time they remembered Him around His table... typically producing people who don’t remember the last time they sensed his presence.
When communion becomes an occasional holiday observance, “Christians” can begin treating Jesus like an occasional priority.
No, I don’t believe the bread literally becomes His body or the cup literally becomes His blood in the catholic transubstantiation sense…But I also refuse to believe communion is merely an empty ritual.
Something sacred happens when the gathered church obeys Christ, examines itself, proclaims His death, remembers the gospel, and communes with Him by faith.
Can I explain every spiritual reality that takes place? No. There are mysteries in our faith that cannot be reduced to human language. But mystery doesn’t diminish reality.
May we never become so consumed with arguing over what’s in the cup that we forget to drink from it together.
- Jon Groves
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3 months agodlfenley
I do believe in communion and what it means. I don't debate about it and I take as a reminder of why I am saved and who is my lord, savior and the one I should serve.
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