From Jim Winkelman:
"Do This In Remembrance Of Me". How many of us grew up with these words from Luke 22:19 present in the church building? Many of you remember them written on the communion table.
At this week's gathering, we will focus on the dangerous act of remembering Jesus through communion. Please take some time this week to read Luke 22:7-20, John 13 and Matthew 26:26-29. Give yourself some undistracted time with a cup of coffee and the word of God, or at the kitchen table with your spouse, or turn off the TV and read these verses to your kids and ask them their thoughts. These are holy words, words God wants us to read, hear and think about over and over.
Notice that God provides. Jesus sent Peter and John and they found everything just as they were told. It is evident that Jesus desired to share the Passover with the Twelve. And in the end, a New Covenant was established. Does any of this make sense?
"While Jews clamor for miraculous demonstrations and Greeks go in for philosophical wisdom, we go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle—and Greeks pass it off as absurd. But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God's ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can't begin to compete with God's 'weakness.' " --1 Corinthians 1:22-25 (MSG)
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I want to thank George T. and Kim S. for the labor of love they gave to enhance our worship this Sunday. The visual for Passover and the entry way into the sanctuary sent a powerful message about our participation in communion. And thanks to Dani for her expressive and clear reading of the Word. It was a great blessing to me.
I appreciate every opportunity to ponder again how very costly -- his very life, his very blood -- our salvation is to Jesus. We tend to swallow a crumb of cracker, a sip of juice, and move on to the next activity of our Sunday morning "service". I need time to absorb the enormity of what these mundane tokens symbolize. How I anticipate the wedding feast, when we, the church, will enter in to the celebration and spend eternity in the presence of the Lamb!
Sunday was awesome! I also appreciate all the work put into the service. I know a video about a lion isn't real, but it touched me very much -- just to have a visualization of Satan's wickedness and accusations to the Lord of all was very moving, and to realize again just what Jesus did for me was humbling, as well.
I was reading Mt. 26 today and was struck by the sentence "My heart is full of sorrow, to the point of death." How much He suffered!
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