What’s the Deal with
The Lord’s Supper?
Mission
We are involved in a sermon series entitled, What’s the Deal with the Lord’s Supper? This series seeks to explore the meaning of the Lord’s Supper and illustrate how this should affect our Christian walk.
In our first lesson, we demonstrated that in the taking of the Lord’s Supper, we experience the presence of Christ. In the second week, we learned the Lord’s Supper is a demonstration of the unity and fellowship Christ has provided in his church. Last week we examined the Past, Present, and Future dimensions of the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is a memorial of a past event – the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. The Lord’s Supper is an experience of the presence of Jesus in the here and now. It is both a reminder and renewal of the healing, forgiveness, and newness of life provided by Jesus. Finally, the Lord’s Supper is an anticipation of the new creation which is yet to come.
Sunday, we will learn that the Lord’s Supper is a part of God’s equipping of the church for its mission to the world.
1 Corinthians 11: 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
The Lord’s Supper is a proclamation of the Lord’s death. To proclaim means to preach or teach and I see at least three ways we proclaim the Lord’s death in the observance of the Lord’s Supper.
- We Proclaim the Lord’s Death to our Fellow Christians. Every time we take communion we share together and invite one another to meditate on the past, present, and future implications of the Lord’s death (as we discussed last week).
- We Proclaim the Lord’s Death to the Principalities and Powers. Paul makes it clear that the church in its practice announces to the principalities and powers that they have been defeated by the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Ephesians 3:10-11 His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Finally, we Proclaim the Lord’s Death to the World through our message and service. The sacrifice of Jesus motivates and equips us to serve the world as he did.
I’ll say more in my lesson! Joey
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