The church was around for decades before there was a New Testament to read and share. There is saying of Baptists that we are “people of the book.” The early church was not. They didn’t have a book. They had a story and they had a meal. From the beginning of the church, the Lord’s Supper has been the way followers of Jesus remind ourselves of what Jesus did on our behalf and the covenant to which we are bound. This tradition began only hours before Jesus was arrested. It’s easy to treat our shared meal as just another thing we do in church, but to Jesus, it was anything but rote. This week, as we draw closer to the cross, we’ll look to the Passover meal Jesus shares with his apostles on the night he was betrayed and we’ll share the meal together to remind ourselves of our place in the covenant.