Our apocalyptic meal

You ever had an apocalyptic meal? Jesus invites us to share a mysterious meal with Him and each other. And this meal could very well mean the end of the world as we know it.

Big Ideas

• Communion is one of the most important and helpful things we get to do as Christians
• It is spiritual - we consume the presence of Christ, actually participating in him, and remembering the incarnation - that God came to be fully human so that he could make us fully like him.
• It is material - not magic, but real. The food reminds us that all our hunger is for him.
• It unifies us. We all receive the same grace of God together
• It is CELEBRATION!!! It is our high feast together.

Questions

• How have you understood communion up to this point?
• How would communion feel different if it was mysterious and spiritual?
• What do you want to think about the next time you take communion?
• Read this poem together. What sticks out to you?

Read This

Love (III) George Herbert

Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back

Guilty of dust and sin.

But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack

From my first entrance in,

Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,

If I lacked any thing.

A guest, I answered, worthy to be here:

Love said, You shall be he.

I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear,

I cannot look on thee.

Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,

Who made the eyes but I?

Truth Lord, but I have marred them: let my shame

Go where it doth deserve.

And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame?

My dear, then I will serve.

You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:

So I did sit and eat.