Every church is different because people are different. A church is not a building. A church is people. If you take who you are out of the building it ceases to go anywhere! Here is how I laughing explain to people what a church is. "U R" Inside the word CHURCH you see those two letters "U and R" if you take them out there is no church. You matter. You matter to God and you matter to others. "Ch Ch" is just a sound that a train makes when it is going no where. The church can go no where without you. You make the church work. You are important.
Since people make up the church and no two people are alike, no two churches are alike. Some like loud praise and others quiet, some prefer no instruments at all. The reason I brought this up today is because of communion. I so enjoy communion. We take communion whenever we desire but corporately as a church we take it together the first Sunday of every month. This is the one thing we all as a church have in common--Communion.
Since people make up the church and no two people are alike, no two churches are alike. Some like loud praise and others quiet, some prefer no instruments at all. The reason I brought this up today is because of communion. I so enjoy communion. We take communion whenever we desire but corporately as a church we take it together the first Sunday of every month. This is the one thing we all as a church have in common--Communion.
1 Corinthians 11:26 (NKJV)
"For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes."
"For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes."
Sitting at the table and eating with family is one of my favorite things to do. It is one of the things I've missed with all my travels. Today, my first day home my thoughts turned to Jesus and how He must want us all home, sitting around the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. All of us together with Him. All of us home. Grateful for my home here on earth and looking forward to my home in heaven I am grateful for the Church. I am grateful for you. Grateful for the family of God. I am grateful for who (U R=you are). We may not all be able to take communion in the same locality, but we are the family of God and we make up the Church and we can share in this until Jesus returns.
ACTION STEP: Take communion today, but before you do search the scriptures about what communion is and what it means. Here is a link to get you started: https://newspring.cc/articles/what-is-communion-and-why-do-we-do-it
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