Preparing for Eucharist

In Alister McGrath’s newest book, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind, four themes connected to eucharist are explored briefly, and I want to reflect on each one over the next four weeks. Today is our fourth and final theme.

Together. At the Table of our Lord we not only stand alone; we also stand together. I take of the cup and the bread, but I take it with you and we together ingest as corporate expressions of our one common faith.

The Lord’s supper is a communal act. Together, even if we do act one by one at the altar or as the elements are passed, we express our faith and together we act in faith that this bread and this cup lead us into blessing and communion with the one who died and who was raised and who is now ruling at the right hand of God.

Together, not just alone, we do this to witness to others that we find grace and forgiveness and new creation at this Table because at this Table we meet with the Lord of grace and goodness.