Communion
Communion
"A meal that Jesus shared around a table with his friends. A profound mystery that has been nourishing God's people for over 2,000 years. A feast and an invitation to know, share, and have communion with Father, Son and Holy Spirit." (Matthew Macaulay)
COMMUNION
Written by Matthew Macaulay (PRS)
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VERSE 1
C F G C
We eat this bread and drink this cup
F Am Dm G
Remembering what you have done
C F G C
The cross before and gates ahead
F Dm G C
We will feast on life not death
VERSE 2
At this table you reveal
This sacrament, a holy meal
A promise made, a covenant
Never broken, always kept
CHORUS
F C
This is communion with our God
Dm Am
This is communion with our king
F Am
Our hearts wide open, our lives laid bare
G F
This is communion, this is communion
VERSE 3
The scarlet hope, the purest lamb
Petitions for us at your hand
The lions roar, his fiery breath
Has warmed our hearts to stand again
VERSE 4
In glory we will stand amazed
When Christ shall come, the banquet laid
We'll feast our eyes, our hearts will burst
And we will know communion
We will share communion
We will have communion
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For over 2000 years, conversations have abounded on what it really meant. Does it save us? Is it actually his body and blood? Is it just a sober moment of remembrance? How do we take it? Oh wait, we can’t take it, we can only receive it. And which hand goes over the other? Grape juice or wine? Am I welcome here or am I not?
At the end of a long day, the king of the universe sat around a simple table with his friends. Maybe he carved the table with his own wood working hands. He took simple, familiar, delicious things in those rugged hands and offered them to his friends. And then later, he died. Two thousand years of unpacking what really happened leads us to this moment. We gather with friends. We share stories. We offer simple and delicious food to one another. We remember him. We enter into a living reality that Jesus extended his love so far that we can’t fathom it. The arms extended to offer the bread and wine, the arms that extended on that rugged cross, a love that reached from that moment through until this moment, becomes ours. And our reception of it all changes us. We live more open, more generously, more vulnerably and more beautifully.