{"id":559,"date":"2011-08-04T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/commemorative-anticipatory\/"},"modified":"2011-08-04T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:59:04","slug":"commemorative-anticipatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/commemorative-anticipatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorative &#038; Anticipatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday @ 8:30 &#038; 11:15, during our worship service we will celebrate the Eucharist.  For your thoughts and preparation: &#8220;Someone has said that the four most disputed words in the history of the church are \u201cThis is my body.\u201d Without entering the lists on all that might be said about this clause, surely we can agree that one of its functions, as it is repeated in the ritual that Christ Jesus himself prescribed, is commemorative: \u201cDo this in remembrance of me\u201d (22:19). It is shocking that this should be necessary, in exactly the same way that it is shocking that a commemorative rite like the Passover should have been necessary. But history shows how quickly the people of God drift toward peripheral matters, and end up ignoring or denying the center. By a simple rite, Jesus wants his followers to come back to his death, his shed blood, his broken body, again and again and again.<\/p>\n<p>It is also an anticipatory rite. It looks forward to the consummated kingdom, when the Passover and the Lord\u2019 s Supper alike find their fulfillment (22:16, 18). We eat and drink as he prescribes \u201cuntil he comes\u201d (1 Cor. 11:26), when commemoration and proclamation will be swallowed up by the bliss of his presence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Don Carson<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/commemorative-anticipatory\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday @ 8:30 &#038; 11:15, during our worship service we will celebrate the Eucharist. For your thoughts and preparation: &#8220;Someone has said that the four most disputed words in the history of the church are \u201cThis is my body.\u201d Without entering the lists on all that might be said about this clause, surely we can [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,16,17],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor","tag-eucharist","tag-holy-communion","tag-lords-supper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-91","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}