Services at 6:00 pm Sunday

  Eating Christ?s flesh and drinking Christ?s blood can be a difficult concept to grasp in any literal sense. It can even be repellant. It sounds like cannibalism and no matter how delicately we couch it, this central sacred moment can be hard for people to deal with (including preachers) except in the most abstract terms. My husband however had an insight, a sudden-flash, gift from God type of insight that makes literal and spiritual sense. He suddenly understood the scientific truth of what Christ said? If Jesus was alive-- God at work in human form on this planet-- then during His lifetime, millions, billions of skin cells were shed on this planet. Air passed in and out of His lungs. Drops of blood He shed on and from the cross became a part of the mass of molecules combining and recombining on this earth. Molecules that did not just touch Christ, but molecules that were literally a part of Christ remained and are part of our earth, allowing them to literally, over time be recombined in a way that can literally make them a part of bread and juice that is consecrated. From this literal sense we understand Christ?s physical presence among us as proof that God is intimately present in ways that literally touch our lives. Jesus reminds us this with the command to eat His flesh and drink His blood. God is present in all we do and touch. This was always true (the entire created world came from God in the first place) but Jesus made it true in human terms. Communion makes it true in my life and your life.