Isn’t She Beautiful-The Eucharist
I am reeling-so much information to process. The morning session entitled “This lovely, frustrating, intoxicating, painful, hard, compelling mystery called church and why she’s worth dying for”, blew my mind.
My notes and interpretation as follows:
Eu-well, good
charizomai-grant, give,
charis-grace, gift
Jesus was our good gift
We can’t have life without death. It is an endless cycle we see repeated over and over again. Death brings life. Perhaps when Jesus commands us in 1 Corinthians 11:23 to celebrate the Eucharist, maybe he was also telling us to BE the Eucharist. Pour out your blood, break your body. Be the Eucharist for the world.
2 Corinthians 4
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.
No life without death. The church is the only organization that exists for the benefit of its non-members. We are the Eucharist for the world. The power of the Eucharist is its weakness. Body broken, blood poured out. Perhaps if we were pouring ourselves out that completely, we would no longer have the energy to pretend.
Rob Bell asked the following challenging question.
If your church disappeared tomorrow-who would protest?
2 Absolutes to being the Eucharist:
1. Be true to your own journey with Jesus.
2. Once the body is broken and blood is poured out, you need to let God put you back together.
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isn’t she beautiful
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