Eric Ayala:
As the Thanksgiving holiday comes again this year, we should remember the Thanksgiving meal that Christians celebrate all year long, the Eucharist. Apart from the theological prejudice that is heaped onto the term, Eucharist simply means “Thanks Giving.” We can see this aspect of the supper when Christ himself inaugurated his covenantal meal…
If all the Supper does is make us realize our sin and leave us in a self absorbed state because of the week’s failures, then we have missed a vital aspect of its proper observance. When we properly understand the Lord’s Supper we should be moved to thanksgiving.
Unfortunately, when the issue of the Lord’s Supper comes up, the response many times is, “How often do we have to do it?” rather than, “Wow, we get to do it!”
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