Communion

This is the Communion Message I shared at Hillsong Burwood Extension this morning...
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One of my favorite things in the entire world is my family, just enjoying each other’s company, sharing thoughts and ideas, laughing and doing life together over food.
This is also something that I believe Jesus enjoyed doing…in the very first Communion he ate and drank with his disciples. Communion was done in community, in fellowship with the people that knew him best, the one’s that he did life with.
I believe for us, as the House of God, through Communion, we not only remember what Christ did for us, but also make a declaration as a family. In Joshua 24:15, Joshua made this public commitment,

“If serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

I love that I can come together with people who have the same mind, same love, and same desire to see this world come to know Jesus. It is so beautiful that we are to remember the sacrifice of Jesus with other’s, through taking a drink, and eating bread. Also, in taking Communion together, remembering what Jesus did on the Cross-for us, as a family, let us also publicly declare that this is a House committed to serving the Lord
If it wasn’t for what Christ did for us, not only would we not have relationship with Him, but also we wouldn’t have relationship with each other, our brothers and sisters in Christ. Through the Spirit, Christ is represented in our fellowship with others. Now, as brothers and sisters in Christ, we will come together and share the emblems with one another.

Father, as we take communion we come together, as a family remembering what Christ did for us, we make a declaration that this is a House committed to serving the You.
I pray that we would be one, as you are One, that we would be unified in our remembrance of your sacrifice.
I thank you for the sacrifice you made, for the incredible debt that you paid that we might know you…but not only to know you, but to also be in fellowship with others. Amen.