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The United States. Do you understand the significance of Christians celebrating communion?

There's a lot of controversy around this practice, and today on Truth for Life weekend

we'll consider what it is and what it isn't as Alistairbeg walks us through Jesus' final Passover

celebration with his disciples.

Now when you read Luke 22, when you read the account in Matthew and in Mark,

when you read 1 Corinthians chapter 11, the words of institution

as we refer to them, where Paul says, for I received from the Lord, what I also passed on to you,

that the Lord Jesus on the night, he was betrayed, took bread, and he broke it, and he gave it to

his disciples, and he said so on. We're dealing in terminology that for any of us who have been around church buildings for

any length of time, we're familiar with it.

We have some kind of perception of it.

But we're also dealing with material that has been the basis of terrific misunderstanding

and provides for some of us a basis for an

unjustifiable security. And indeed, some of us feel intensely guilty because we have come out

of a background where that was everything to us, and now it means largely nothing to us, and every so often

we say to ourselves, I wonder if I'm on the completely wrong track. So I want to pause for a

moment and identify with you, first of all, the beauty and the structure of the Passover meal

itself. This is my best attempt to this.

Some of you are from a Jewish background, I'm sure, will immediately be on your feet to help

me out and to clarify things in a way that I'm unable to do. But in my own reading, this is

what I've discovered. The Passover meal, and incidentally, I have attended at my Jewish

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