Sacred Times
Dear Grace Family,
This past Sunday, we celebrated the Lord’s table (i.e., communion), a moment in the local church's life that celebrates all that Christ did for the believer.
The Lord’s table is a look in three directions: at the past, present, and future.
When we take communion, this remembrance is a look to the past, namely, the life, death, and burial of Christ.
Also, when we partake of the Lord’s table, we are thinking about our present relationship with Christ, which is solely based on the grace and mercy of our Savior.
Lastly, communion is an act that prepares our hearts for the future consummation of our salvation, that where He is, we will be also (John 14:1-3).
The worship of Christ in the elements of the bread and cup is an act of remembering a special time in redemption where all of history finds its apex. In the New Testament, it uses the language of time with two words: Kairos and Chronos.
Kairos deals with moments in time, and Chronos deals with time in a chronological sense.
Biblical history is marked by many Kairos moments like creation, fall, the Exodus, the cross, resurrection, and ascension. The Bible identifies many significant Kairos moments that are set apart from all other days.
Throughout a given calendar year, we have many days set apart from other normal days. For example, graduation day, New Year's Day, and wedding days are special moments in time that we look at with special reverence.
The work of Christ was not only a special God-ordained event in chronological time, but it was the event, a moment in Kairos, that God did His greatest work through His one and only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 3:16).
This holy event is remembered through the breaking of bread (Acts 2:42), just as in the Old Testament when the people of Israel celebrated the Passover.
The Passover time was a celebration of a Kairos event, a unique time in redemptive history when God saved His people from the grips of slavery to Pharaoh (Ex. 12).
The Passover was born to remember what God did for His people: “Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance” (Ex. 12:14). This unique and holy event (the tenth plague) led to a holy and divinely ordained act (the Passover).
Do you see the work of God in these events? God’s work in Old Testament history foreshadowed a greater moment in time (Kairos), where Christ, the Lamb of God, would come and give His perfect life to deliver us from the grips of slavery to sin.
Just as the Passover celebrated God’s deliverance from Egypt, today, we celebrate its fulfillment in Christ when we take communion. So, each time we gather around the Lord’s table, let us remember God’s work.
Blessings,
Pastor Jason
This past Sunday, we celebrated the Lord’s table (i.e., communion), a moment in the local church's life that celebrates all that Christ did for the believer.
The Lord’s table is a look in three directions: at the past, present, and future.
When we take communion, this remembrance is a look to the past, namely, the life, death, and burial of Christ.
Also, when we partake of the Lord’s table, we are thinking about our present relationship with Christ, which is solely based on the grace and mercy of our Savior.
Lastly, communion is an act that prepares our hearts for the future consummation of our salvation, that where He is, we will be also (John 14:1-3).
The worship of Christ in the elements of the bread and cup is an act of remembering a special time in redemption where all of history finds its apex. In the New Testament, it uses the language of time with two words: Kairos and Chronos.
Kairos deals with moments in time, and Chronos deals with time in a chronological sense.
Biblical history is marked by many Kairos moments like creation, fall, the Exodus, the cross, resurrection, and ascension. The Bible identifies many significant Kairos moments that are set apart from all other days.
Throughout a given calendar year, we have many days set apart from other normal days. For example, graduation day, New Year's Day, and wedding days are special moments in time that we look at with special reverence.
The work of Christ was not only a special God-ordained event in chronological time, but it was the event, a moment in Kairos, that God did His greatest work through His one and only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 3:16).
This holy event is remembered through the breaking of bread (Acts 2:42), just as in the Old Testament when the people of Israel celebrated the Passover.
The Passover time was a celebration of a Kairos event, a unique time in redemptive history when God saved His people from the grips of slavery to Pharaoh (Ex. 12).
The Passover was born to remember what God did for His people: “Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance” (Ex. 12:14). This unique and holy event (the tenth plague) led to a holy and divinely ordained act (the Passover).
Do you see the work of God in these events? God’s work in Old Testament history foreshadowed a greater moment in time (Kairos), where Christ, the Lamb of God, would come and give His perfect life to deliver us from the grips of slavery to sin.
Just as the Passover celebrated God’s deliverance from Egypt, today, we celebrate its fulfillment in Christ when we take communion. So, each time we gather around the Lord’s table, let us remember God’s work.
Blessings,
Pastor Jason
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