A modest proposal for Communion

... Repeated over and over again throughout the world, the ritual of Communion is the primal act of the Christian church. Though this meal has its origins in the Jewish Passover meal (a remembrance and celebration of deliverance from bondage), it soon became a central symbol for early Christians. But from the disciples who shared a meal with Jesus at Emmaus (Luke 24:28-32) to the believers who gladly and repeatedly broke bread in each other’s homes (Acts 2:46), the celebration focused on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, not his suffering and death ...

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