The Lord's Supper

Once a month, at least in our church, we take extra time, unless the pastor shortens other parts of the service, which he doesn't usually do, to observe the tradition of the Communion Service.

Oh yes, we have to do this because Paul and Jesus and maybe some other people, told us to. But other than that, why do we do this? Is it a burning desire in our hearts, or just another thing that is done at church.

I must confess that I have not often thought about this aspect of the church services. It was after all a tradition, and a Biblical one at that, so we do it.

We have moved the Lord's Supper! Now before some of your go scrambling around looking for it, just relax. Instead of tacking it on at the end of the service we are attempting to make it a part of the service. Like in the middle, with the pastor giving a short message highlighting some aspect of the meaning of the Lord's Supper.

Recently my friend Owen Strachan blogged at http://owenstrachan.com/ regarding: Are Roommates the new family? He commends that these roommates are looking for something that is good: a sense of community. Yet they are looking in the wrong place. We shall never find fellowship, belonging, love, unity and place in this fallen world that completely satisfies while at the same time emphasizes the Biblical responsibility of love.

Certainly from time to time we catch glimpses of the fellowship promised by the Savior to his people. His promise is big, much bigger and deeper than we can now grasp. The Lord's Supper gives us such a glimpses into the other world fellowship. Until we are there we can not fully know it, but we may know it, in part, today. Oh the depths of the love of God. He not only is taking people of every race, nation, tribe and tongue and saving us, he is also making us one.

The text for our services for the next couple of weeks will be John 17:20-26. Who am I to teach such truths as one finds here?! Yet, this is where our Chief Shepherd as brought us. May our Savior lift us up, not just to an escape from hell, but into the glories of Christ and the fellowship of the eternal Godhead. May we take the bread and cup as a member of something wonderful, something awesome and of something far bigger and deeper that just tradition.