3 Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. Romans 6
23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
25 In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. 1 Corinthians 11
The sacraments and the liturgy are our heritage and our legacy as God’s people in Jesus Christ. The liturgy is the privilege of the baptized; the liturgy is the obligation of the baptized! As we reenact and reappropriate the meta-narrative of our deliverance from death into life in the Christ event, the liturgy, the sacraments, and the proclamation reminds me Who God is, Who Jesus is, what the Spirit is doing.
That heritage reminds us we are baptized, called, and accountable, yet we live and flourish under a reign of mercy and grace.
This is our legacy.
This is a great reminder of why it's so important to pause and remember all that Jesus has done!
ReplyDeleteIt's transubstantiation,
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Partake, no hesitation,
cast heart upon the flood
of grace that flows down stony streets
from the hilltop of the cross
and which pools there as it meets
the nexus of the hope and loss
that stood in the waiting
between Friday and Easter Morn,
the weeping and anticipating
what He said was to be born,
a new world built upon intent
that every breath is sacrament.
Great reminder.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Well written. I had that same verse - that what I received I passed on to you.
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