Dear Family at Christ Community,

     This Sunday we will celebrate the Lord’s Table together as we begin the Letter to the Colossians. The broken bread and offered cup humbly display both the sufficiency and the supremacy of Christ which serves as the main theme for Colossians. The broken body of Christ proved sufficient to pay for all of our sins and satisfy the wrath of God. The
offered cup proved sufficient to bring new life in the fulfillment of the covenant. The person and work of Christ signified in the table continues to prove supreme to all other methods of salvation or attempted saviors. In taking of the table, we will declare that we are family in Christ alone by faith alone through grace alone!
     This declaration pushes back against the many offers that we have to add to the person and work of Christ. To add anything to Him is to proclaim that He is insufficient and lacking in supremacy. R.C. Lucas reminds us that our salvation begins and ends with the grace of God in The Message of Colossians and Philemon: Fullness and Freedom:

…the heart of the gospel concerns not our commitment to God but his free and merciful offer to commit himself to us in Christ; that our acceptance of the Saviour is meaningless unless God has already freely accepted us in him; that the very essence of the story is not that of men striving to make Christ their Lord, but of Christ in sheer goodness and pity, undertaking for his own sake to make us his servants, despite the fact that we never cease to be unprofitable and undeserving of such a privilege.

There is nothing that we can add that is of any true eternal value. All such strivings are in vain. The Colossian church faced this challenge from false teachers just as we do today. Thus the importance of regularly celebrating the Lord’s Supper to remind us of the truth of the Gospel!

     Take time this week to give thanks for the sufficiency and supremacy of Christ in accomplishing and applying your salvation in your life. Ask the Spirit to show you the ways in which you may be adding to or striving in vain in regards to your salvation. Pursue reconciliation with those with whom you are out of fellowship or that you avoid in fellowship. To say that reconciliation is not possible with others who profess Christ is in some measure to declare that Christ is insufficient and lacking in supremacy. This doesn’t mean that it won’t be hard, but it does mean that you should try expecting the Spirit to have gone before you to prepare the way for reconciliation. Pray for our time together at the
table to bear fruit in our faith in Christ and love for all the saints because of the hope that is laid up for us in heaven to which the elements point.

In Christ,
Cameron