Wednesday, November 13, 2013

DAY 543 - Breaking Yourself into Pieces in order to Give (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)


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                               Today's Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-34
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Bible Study

     Today's passage is a very important one helping us to become true disciples of Christ following Him to the Cross. What? To the Cross? Not to prosperity?Not to power? Not to fulfill our own wish, dream and desire? The Cross? 
Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
     Paul sees the eucharist not simply as an occasion for Christian devotion and fellowship, but a powerful statement to the world at large, and perhaps particularly to the 'rulers and authorities' who put Jesus on the cross, not realizing that this would bring about their own downfall (see 2:7-8; 15:23-28). It is the announcement of Jesus' death; and through Jesus' death the powers are defeated, and people who were enslaved to them are rescued...
     Paul explains why the Corinthians' shameful practice of allowing the rich/poor divide in society to spill over into church life is totally out of line.  He has already said that their divisive meals cannot actually be 'the meal which relates to the Lord' (verse 20).  Now he explains, reminding them of the traditional story of the Last Supper, that when the meal is celebrated the Lord himself is there, not simply absent, away in the past, or longed for at his coming in the future, but present through this 'memorial'. The eucharist is the moment at which the past event comes forward to live again in the present, and the future moment of the Lord's return comes backwards in time to challenge us in the present...Misbehaving in relation to this meal is misbehaving in relation to the Lord himself.   

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:1 Corinthians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.149-150.

      What kind of message have you got from this passage? What kind of key words have you got to enrich your understanding to the real meaning of Eucharist (Also named as Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper). 

 Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    What I heard from Jesus today is: Breaking yourself into pieces in order to give

    What I got from Jesus today is a call for us to follow Jesus example to break ourselves into pieces so that we have something to give, or in a better way, to give everything we have.

      The word "Eucharist" is Greek, it means "thanksgiving". What are we giving thanks to? To the four words happened to Jesus: Take, Giving thanks, Break, Give".

      Jesus took the bread signifying His body. He gave thanks to His body. He broke His own body. He gives His broken pieces of His body to each one of us so that we can build up His body and that is the Church.

      Every time when I am officiating the Eucharist and when I hold the bread. I have a very strong feeling that Jesus reminding me to break myself into pieces so that I can give all of me to my brothers and sisters to build up His body, the Church.

      Are you willing to break yourself into pieces in order to give? At least, something to give, or to give your all? 

 Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to be willing to break ourselves into pieces so that your body can be build up.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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