Communion was never meant to feel like a test — but for many believers, it quietly has.

In this Off the Clock episode of Grace in the Grind, we slow down to revisit the Lord’s Table and recover what it was always meant to be: a place of grace, unity, honesty, and shared life in Christ.

If you’ve ever felt anxious during Communion… If you’ve wondered whether you should sit it out because of guilt, failure, or unresolved tension… If the Table has felt heavy instead of hopeful…

This conversation is for you.

Drawing from 1 Corinthians 10–11, this episode explores what Scripture actually means when it calls us to “examine ourselves.” Not a weekly moral audit. Not a demand for perfection. But a call to repentance, reconciliation, and surrendered hearts — especially toward one another.

We talk honestly about:

• Why Communion is open to the repentant, but not casual toward unrepentant sin
• How division, bitterness, and unresolved relationships matter deeply at the Table
• Why Paul warns that treating Communion lightly harms the church
• The difference between struggling with sin and refusing surrender
• How Jesus knowingly set the Table for betrayers, deniers, and deserters — and still offered Himself
• Why Communion is not a reward for holiness achieved, but nourishment for holiness pursued

This episode holds the tension Scripture holds: Grace without fear. Reverence without shame. Unity without compromise.

And ultimately, Communion doesn’t just look backward — it looks forward.

Every time we take the bread and the cup, we proclaim a future hope: the marriage supper of the Lamb — a Table with no division, no guilt, no death, and no fear.

The Table is still set. The bread is still broken. The cup is still offered. And the feast is still coming.

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