'Life Around the Table' / David McBride

When we sit at the table we encounter God in a physical sense. The bread is a proclamation of the past: a reminder of the sacrifice Jesus made for us. It causes us to stop, pause, look back and remember. The focus is taken off us, and moved onto him. The wine is a proclamation of the present and the future. It’s blood that carries and sustains life. It represents covenant and promise. Often the question comes up as to who is worthy to partake. The immature cause splits, divisions and cliques around their respective opinions. The mature will overlook offence and faults in order to maintain the unity of the bride.