From the beginning, the first Christians celebrated the Lord’s Supper

together. The spiritual significance of the meal is past, present and

future.

When we take communion we are acknowledging the once and for all work of

Jesus’ death in history; we experience his Spirit feeding us, grafting us

to him, as well as to one another in the present; and we are reassured of

Jesus’ return and the hopeful expectation of heaven. Communion is as

integral to our faith now as it was then, and the more we devote ourselves

to it, the more we open ourselves to the transformative work of the Spirit.

By Ed Flint