Teaching | How the Meal Became the Mass: Part 1 | Eating and Drinking E06
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What is communion, really? The practice of eating with God, or the Lord's Supper, shows up throughout the New Testament. In part one of this teaching, John Mark breaks down the many names for this practice and its use in the Scriptures and throughout church history to give us a better understanding of the essence of this practice.
Key Scripture Passages: Luke 22v7-30; Acts 2v42; Acts 20v7; 1 Corinthians 11v20-34;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the eating and drinking practice. |
| 0:13.0 | Turning your Bibles to Luke chapter 22, Luke chapter 22, as we near the end of our summer long practice on eating and drinking, or what one writer that we love calls |
| 0:32.8 | radically ordinary hospitality. |
| 0:35.6 | And the last dimension of this practice up on the docket |
| 0:38.6 | is eating and drinking with God, or what a lot of people call communion. |
| 0:46.3 | Summer is my favorite time in the city. |
| 0:49.2 | Every day I look forward to cycling home from work. |
| 0:52.2 | It's about a mile from our office over on |
| 0:54.1 | 13th to my house on 26th and in between the office and my house are about |
| 1:00.0 | 497 restaurants and this time of year as I cycle home around six at night I |
| 1:06.6 | ride past hundreds if not thousands of Portlanders literally spilling out not only to the outdoor seating but then onto the sidewalk and then into the street |
| 1:16.4 | loud |
| 1:17.4 | raucous noisy lot of laughter a little bit tipsy and it's six p.m |
| 1:29.0 | and there's just something about eating outside in the heat of summer around a table with people that we love, food in our stomach, |
| 1:34.0 | a glass of wine in our hand. |
| 1:35.6 | If you're over 21, some of you are not. |
| 1:38.2 | There's just something to that moment, |
| 1:41.1 | a presence to the person across the table from you, to your own body and even your |
| 1:47.2 | soul and even more to God. |
| 1:49.7 | I mean, we live in one of the best cities in the world for food. |
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