The Lord”s Supper: Unpretty and Unavoidable

 

By Jim Tune

 

• This article is no longer available online, but articles about the Lord’s Supper that appeared in the July 12/19, 2009, and June 10, 2007, issues of CHRISTIAN STANDARD–plus more–are available for purchase as a single, redisigned, easy-to-read and easy-to-use downloadable resource/pdf (a fuller explanation is below).

 

 

 

The Lord’s Supper: A Memory and More

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If you keep doing something often enough, long enough, it will change you. Take, for example, the Lord”s Supper. 

If we practice the Lord”s Supper in a meaningful way, week after week, it will change us for the better by helping us grow closer to God. If we treat it as a ritual largely devoid of meaning, however, it can damage us by causing our faith itself to become a meaningless ritual. 

In this 14-page resource, eight writers look at the Lord”s Supper (Communion) past, present, and future””its power, purpose, and promise.

 

As one writer puts it: “Nothing delivers the death of Jesus like the Lord”s Supper!”

The articles previously appeared in CHRISTIAN STANDARD (primarily in the issues of June 10, 2007, and July 12/19, 2009).

All downloads include permission to reproduce material up to 10 times for ministry and educational purposes. To order this resource, CLICK HERE; To sample the first few paragraphs of Jim Tune’s article, continue reading below . . .   

 

The words, “This do in remembrance of me,” are well known to believers everywhere. It”s a less common sight today, but in years past, visitors to Christian churches would see those words carved deep in thick oak tables carefully set front and center. Apparently this gave some comfort to the faithful, and, as far as I can tell, didn”t create any significant offense to visitors and guests.

There”s nothing like revealing your bias in the first paragraph, but I miss the table. Or maybe it”s the inscription I long to see: “This do in remembrance of me.”

Don”t get me wrong””we serve the Lord”s Supper every Sunday at our church. But as a church plant meeting in a school, we”ve opted for portable and light versus wooden and heavy. I also understand there is nothing sacred about the table itself. I”ve seen way too many churches get hung up on furniture and fixtures. What I”m convinced we must not lose is the centrality of the Lord”s Supper to our worship each Lord”s Day . . .