Communion...

So this is not a post at all to tell how communion should look, or anything against how church's are doing communion. This is more of a revelation from God for me to be able to participate in communion so that God can fully work through me.

To back track, the idea of communion never seemed significant to me. I kind of just did it just to do it, like most. I mean yeah it's a recollection of what Jesus did for us, and may be a unifying thing for the body of Christ. But it's just another part of church, I think most people do just because. My brother (Micah) actually stirred this up in me when at a Sunday morning church service he did not take communion. Rather he just worshipped and prayed. When I asked him what that was all about (because it struck me weird that my brother who I looked up to, and knew loved God very much, did do this), he told me that he never understood the significance of it as well, he just kind of had the same feelings for it as me, he just chose not to do it, because why do something if you don't believe whole heartedly in doing it. (I think that is close to a famous quote or something) But anyways we talked about what we thought communion should look like.

This brings me to this last sunday morning church service where we took communion. I really pressed into God and tried to understand what it was all about, and I got these words:

Communion is a choice to participate, surrender, and step-out and say, "Lord I thank you for your body and the blood you shed, so I will take these elements because I can not do anything on my own, and I need your body and you blood, I have to have Jesus." It's also a unifying thing, when the whole body is joining together saying that (what i just said). And by unifying fully to be DEPENDANT, we grow as a body and we see the glory and power of God. I also wrote He will move, which is kind of implied by seeing the glory and power of God.

Lastly I, yes this is a me moment and thought, think that the offering elements should be, when done in a church service, at the front of the santuary and people should get up out of their seats to go and grab the elements. But then I don't know what they should do after that, i think it is just a cool concept to make people have to go and get it themselves. I think you see what I am saying here.