Body of Christ:  “Formed in Communion”

August 21, 2016 

We continue our focus on the ╬ “One Bread, One Body” Our sacraments not only shape us individually as people of God, but form us collectively as the Body of Christ in the world today.  The apostle Paul proclaims the unity that God calls us into.  And he says God’s table is where that formation takes place.  “We who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.” (1 Corinthians 10:17)  We sing this in our worship together:  “One Bread, one Body, one Lord of all!”  When we share in the bread of life and the wine of forgiveness, we become the hands and feet, the heads and hearts, the bone and sinew of that Body, living into God’s vision of a world redeemed, restored.