Christ’s People At Communion

Christ’s People At Communion

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

I Corinthians 11: 24

We come today to consider Christ’s institution of the communion feast.  As we find the Apostle Paul relating it, he uses a particular phrase upon which we will dwell for the next few days.  Christ says, ‘do this in remembrance of me.’  Before we consider any other portion of the text, we want to consider to whom Christ was speaking.  Christ instituted the communion feast for His Own people.  He was addressing His Own disciples when He said, ‘do this in remembrance of me.’  Apart from our having a personal, vital relationship with Christ, the communion feast has really very little meaning.  It becomes a form, a ceremony, or perhaps a quaint tradition to us, if we do not know Christ personally.  As we have come to know Him by embracing Him as the Gospel freely offers Him to us, it becomes much more meaningful to us.  When we come to the communion table, we are publicly identifying ourselves as those who rest by faith in Christ Alone.  We are saying that we are His and He is ours forever.  We are making a statement as to upon Whom all our hope depends and where our loyalty lies.  We are participating in the communion feast as part of the Church of Jesus Christ, that is, all of the redeemed of all ages.  Before we approach the communion table, let us examine our standing before God.  If we are His people, then let us keep the feast.

Our Kind and Loving Savior,
we praise You that You desire communion and fellowship with us.
We rejoice that You have ordained this simple feast
in order that we might look again at the great sacrifice
which You have made for us.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning