Worship and Communion

The early church would meet on the first day of the week and they would worship by singing together, praying together, and having communion together. This praise and worship would spiritually prepare them for learning about Jesus and his sacrifice and the promise of eternity with Him. William Temple, a minister, writer of philosophy, and Archbishop of Canterbury unfolds the depth and power of true worship. He makes clear that worship is a function of the whole human person. When we start moving more into this kind of worship we will find that the Christian life, and the promises of Scripture, make more and more sense. He says, and I quote…. “Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, Nourishment of mind by His truth, Purifying of imagination by His beauty, Opening of the heart to His love, And submission of will to his purpose. And all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.” And I would add, enabled by our faith in Him from His grace to us by His Spirit of truth because of His love for us seen in His Son Jesus Christ. We come together in communion as a congregation to share as one church…one family…one body of believers in worship of the holy Savior. We share in the bread representing his body given as a sacrifice for our sins and the juice representing the blood He shed on the cross. We share in his grace and we share in Jesus’ promise of eternity with Him and the Father in Heaven. This is why we give the Lord all our praise and worship and faith.