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Meditation on Communion
Join us as we meditate on 1 Corinthians 11:29, a verse rich with meaning about communion. Disco… (visit YouTube for more)
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Today’s meditation verse is about communion and it seems to be a many layered verse. So let’s see what we can do with it as we meditate. It’s 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verse 29. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
A lot hangs on what Paul means here by discerning the body. Which body? It could probably go either way, and that might be deliberate, meaning the church or Christ’s body.
Christ’s body is figuratively the church. He is the head, we are the body. But also Christ’s body is the body that was beaten and bruised and died on the cross to redeem us.
So in both cases, I think, Paul wants us to make sure that we are thinking rightly About the body, the body of Christ, whether that’s the church or our Master.
So we need to understand what it is that he did for us. And we need to understand the kind of community that we’re members of. This is a holy community and he is a holy God.
And we need to keep that in our minds and in our hearts, so that as we approach this beautiful meal, this act of communion, literally meaning, intimate relationship with God, we are doing that with dignity and with honour that we are respecting Jesus and we’re respecting each other, that there are no fights over communion or indeed any other matter in the church. And that we all together are fixing our eyes on Jesus and eating and drinking with gratitude for what he’s done for us.
God, I ask you that you keep us mindful of the meaning of our Lord Jesus’s body and the meaning and the purpose of the church in the world, so that when we celebrate communion we are doing that in a way that is worthy of you and that is worthy of our brothers and sisters. Amen.
