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Communion

            Like Baptism, the Lord’s Supper is an outward act symbolic of a spiritual experience. Just as sins can not be cleansed away by the water of baptism, the soul can not be fed by the partaking of the bread and wine of communion. However, the purpose of the ordinance is to reveal a fundamental truth. The broken bread and the wine poured out are symbols of the sufferings of Christ to atone for our sins. “For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.” The communion ordinance then is symbolic of the trust each of us, who have experienced the new birth, have in the atonement of Christ. It is not what we have done, but what he has done. The sacrifice of his own body, the shedding of his own blood on the cross of Calvary, the atonement, is what the Lord’s Supper commemorates.       

            Just as the Passover was set up so that the children of Israel would remember God’s work in bringing them out of the bondage of Egypt, the Lord set up the communion as a means for us to never forget the atonement of Christ. When we partake of the bread, we are reminded of the broken body of Christ. When we look at the cup of wine, we are made to remember the shed blood of Christ.

            We are also made to remember the unity of the believers in one body, the church. “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.” All Christians that partake of the Lord’s Supper, regardless of the assembly of their worship, or the name over the door, are one body in Christ.

            Regardless of the benefits derived, these truths are symbolized by the observance of the communion. Praise him!

                                                                                  Bill Moseley