For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. (1 Corinthians 11:23-26, NRSV)
What is the most powerful meal you remember?
Who was there?
What did you eat?
What was said?
What was the scent in the air?
It is amazing the things we connect to memories and how a single moment in time is fixed with specific memories, and a smell, or a taste, or a specific thing will trigger an emotion…
Here is this meal heaven and earth meet, the kingdom of this world and the heavenly kingdom unite.
Every time we partake of this meal we are partaking of it with Jesus the night He was handed over, and we are partaking of it with Jesus in the kingdom to come.
We believe we are partaking of this meal with those we are gathered with and those who have already gone before us and those who are yet to come.
This is the moment when Heaven and Earth meet! This is the moment we are all united as the body!
What a meal indeed!
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