‘Communion’
It can feel more formal than free, can’t it? Like a forced religious ritual. But I don’t think that’s what Jesus meant.
How do you think Jesus would want you and I to celebrate the thousands-year-old reality that we’ve been set free? Not just passover, but now, also, death and resurrection… leading to new life and relationship with God restored. We’re supposed to identify with Jesus’ death, not personify it! We’re supposed to recognize our need for grace and forgiveness, not ignore that grace and forgiveness are already ours!
Friends, Passover was celebrated with a party. How much more joyful and grateful should we be today?
So,
I want to give you a simple framework for reconsidering Communion.
Listen,
I know that for some this a challenge. Communion is attached to theology or duty or tradition or nostalgia. But ask yourself:
- Is it helping me experience the fullness of God?
- Might it be a human tradition and a religious structure that needs shifting?
Tomorrow I’m going to give you a framework to host a dinner and enjoy being FREE.