Dear Family at Christ Community,

       As we prepare to come to the Lord’s Table in worship this coming Sunday, please consider this quote from James R. Edwards in The Gospel According to Mark :

In placing the Last Supper between the betrayal and defection of the disciples Mark vividly conveys that “the many” for whom Jesus pours out his life include his own companions around the table. The sin that necessitates the sending of God’s Son is not someone else’s sin—the sin of Caligula or Nero or the legion of tyrants ever since—but the sin of the tenants of his own vineyard, of his own disciples—of Peter and James, of you and me. The essential evil in the world and the essential atonement for the evil of the world are present at the table of the Lord’s Supper—whenever it is celebrated.

       Consider the powerful truth that Jesus’s body was given for YOU! The broken bread declares this not as an abstract, general truth but a tangible, specific forgiving of YOUR sins past, present, and future. Meditate on Jesus’s blood spilled for YOU! The overflowing cup proclaims not that you will get better someday but that YOUR heart of stone has been transformed into a heart of flesh that bears resurrected fruit that brings the Father pleasure today. Please gratefully prepare to be nourished in these realities at the Table on Sunday.

In Christ,
Cameron