Title: The Taste of Greatness (6)
Series: Greatness - Just Live It
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: John 6:48-58
An 11-year-old girl named Abby went to the refrigerator and grabbed a grape flavored juice box. She shoved the straw into the box and took a sip. And then she paused for a minute. She took the juice box to her sister, and said, "Here, taste this, and tell me if it tastes like church."
Now, why would she think it tasted like church? Because Grape juice is what a lot of churches put in their Communion cups. And that puzzled Abby! It tasted like communion - but they weren't in a church building at the time and there were no communion trays. There was no communion bread, and there was no communion cups. Despite the fact that she wasn't in a church bldg. at that moment the juice box tasted like church because it tasted like... communion!
In our text today in John 6 - what we're reading about SOUNDS like church. It sounds like communion. And so, a lot of folks will use this passage to explain the Lord's Supper. But there's a couple of problems with that. First Jesus hadn't died yet!
In I Corinthians 11:23-26 Paul wrote: "I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes."
You see, when we take communion we proclaim Jesus' death. But you can't proclaim something that hasn't happened! His body hadn't been broken yet and His blood hadn't been shed. And, there's no communion trays in John 6. And there's no communion cups. There's NOT even a piece of bread anywhere in sight!!! So, what's going on here?
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Series: Greatness - Just Live It
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: John 6:48-58
An 11-year-old girl named Abby went to the refrigerator and grabbed a grape flavored juice box. She shoved the straw into the box and took a sip. And then she paused for a minute. She took the juice box to her sister, and said, "Here, taste this, and tell me if it tastes like church."
Now, why would she think it tasted like church? Because Grape juice is what a lot of churches put in their Communion cups. And that puzzled Abby! It tasted like communion - but they weren't in a church building at the time and there were no communion trays. There was no communion bread, and there was no communion cups. Despite the fact that she wasn't in a church bldg. at that moment the juice box tasted like church because it tasted like... communion!
In our text today in John 6 - what we're reading about SOUNDS like church. It sounds like communion. And so, a lot of folks will use this passage to explain the Lord's Supper. But there's a couple of problems with that. First Jesus hadn't died yet!
In I Corinthians 11:23-26 Paul wrote: "I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes."
You see, when we take communion we proclaim Jesus' death. But you can't proclaim something that hasn't happened! His body hadn't been broken yet and His blood hadn't been shed. And, there's no communion trays in John 6. And there's no communion cups. There's NOT even a piece of bread anywhere in sight!!! So, what's going on here?
W ...
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