Easter 2023
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Welcome/Prayer
Welcome/Prayer
Chapter 1: Rob
Chapter 1: Rob
Singing
Singing
Chapter 2: Miranda
Chapter 2: Miranda
2A
2A
Communion: Jack
Communion: Jack
Passover: celebration of deliverance from death and slavery.
Jesus with his disciples: I want to eat this meal with you before I suffer.
Understand my sacrifice (I am the lamb) in the depth of meaning of this meal - there is coming a deliverance from a deeper slavery of all humanity to the power of sin and death.
I will soon confront and defeat the powers that hurt, destroy, kill (resurrection)
Paul - this meal is communion, fellowship, participation in the risen Christ.
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,
For most of church history, the table was the center, the focal point of worship. It is where they experienced an encounter with Jesus.
TODAY Jesus is hosting us. He is communing with us with his presence.
Through this meal, Christ makes us participants in his nature and character.
His presence feeds us.
• It is food for this life; kingdom life.
• It is a taste of what is to come.
Because the Lord himself communes with us in this bread and wine, we too are to commune with one another.
In that communion, we allow Jesus to speak to our need for restoration to the Father, to one another because of sin - attitudes and actions that have damaged ourselves and one another and respond - acknowledge it, seek forgiveness, offer forgiveness. Begin the process of repenting.
SPEND THE NEXT FEW MOMENTS LISTENING AND RESPONDING.
Prayer
Prayer
We thank You, Father, for Your Son who knows us. You made it possible for us to know Him.
You created all things for Your purposes, giving us all we need for life together as Your people; and we thank You.
When we went our own way, You did not reject us. You came to meet us in Your Son.
You embraced us as your children and welcomed us to sit and eat with You.
In Christ, You shared our life that we might live in Him and He in us.
You opened His arms of love on the cross, sacrificing Himself to erase sin that keeps us distant from the Father.
Bread
Bread
Jack: Last Supper Bread
On the night he was betrayed, at supper with his friends he took bread, and gave thanks; he broke it and gave it to them, saying: Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me.
Cup
Cup
At the end of supper, taking the cup of wine, he gave thanks, and said: Drink this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins; do this in remembrance of me.
Father, make us one in Christ, our risen Lord. Amen.
2B
2B
Song
Song
Chapter 3: Jack
Chapter 3: Jack
Song
Song
Sending
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