March 29, 2018
7:00pm

“God’s Will and Joyful Service”

We gather this evening to join in Holy Communion in remembering our Savior’s gift of forgiveness and strength in a new meal.

 Let Us Love One Another, as Christ Has Loved Us and Loves Us to the End

“The Lord’s Passover” (Ex. 12:11) and “the blood of the covenant” at Mt. Sinai (Ex. 24:8) are preeminent types of the Lord’s Supper. The blood of Christ, the Lamb of God, now covers us, and we keep His Supper “as a feast to the Lord” (Ex. 12:13–14). In Him we see “the God of Israel” (Ex. 24:9), and yet He does not lay His hand on us to punish us. As disciples of Jesus, we recline at table with Him to eat and drink in peace (Mark 14:18). The Apostles, who received the New Testament in His Blood “on the night when He was betrayed,” delivered the same to His Church, which we also now receive in remembrance of Him (1 Cor. 11:23–26; Mark 14:22–25). So He has “loved His own who were in the world,” and He loves us “to the end” (John 13:1). As He thus feeds us in love, let us love one another, just as He has loved us (John 13:34).  For “we who are many are one body” because “we all partake of the one bread,” which is the body of Christ (1 Cor. 10:17).