We're looking at two different reads right now on Jesus words in Matthew 26 where he says take and eat this is my body

referring to some bread that he's got there or drink from it referring to a cup all of you

This is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the

forgiveness of sins. We're trying to figure out whether he is literally saying

this is my body and this is my blood and that this is a repeatable miracle that happens throughout history

when the priest prays over the elements of communion or whether Jesus is using a very sharp

metaphor where he is saying this is my body and this is my blood in some more

symbolic sense. So yesterday and now also today we're working on trying to

understand more about why the people who think this is a symbolic

metaphorical remark think about that the way they do.

At this time I'm going to have my friend Jeffrey play some lovely music and

then we're going to pick up where we left off. theology than a lot of times we get and we're bouncing around between texts a lot more than we usually do.

Part of the fun of this whole thing is we just go right through a book of the Bible, but this is really important and okay look yeah I have an agenda here.

Part of my agenda is that Christians have cannibalized each other no no pun intended, over this particular issue for a long time.

So the reason that I took two conversations on the real presence view,

the reason I'm taking two conversations here, is I'm just trying to steal man both positions as best as I can.

I'm trying to disclose my biases, my understanding of the thing,

and I'm hoping that this little conversation, this little interlude inspired by Matthew 26,

will just make everybody. Outsiders, High Church people, symbolic communion people,

more empathetic to each other, more understanding of how other people could see things the way. people more us as opposed to our presuppositions. Remember, the objective of the exercise is not to get you

to think exactly my version of Christianity. I'm always thinking about this and growing and processing it.

Going through the book of Matthew has changed me.

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