Welcome to Monday's Things Unseen.

If you were with us a few weeks ago, you'll maybe remember we did a week of podcasts on the subject of baptism.

We weren't focusing on the controversial elements at all. You can do that at the end of the day not benefit from your baptism. We weren't focusing on the controversial elements at all. You can do that at the end of the day,

not benefit from your baptism at all. So I thought in the same spirit we should spend another

week thinking about the Lord's Supper. It's important for us to do this. We're baptized once,

but we do come to the Lord's table frequently, some of us every

month or perhaps even every week, and some of us probably even more frequently than that.

But for all that, I sometimes wonder if we were all given a three-by-five card after we'd receive

the Lord's supper and were asked to write down

what it all meant and what we were thinking about. I suspect we might be surprised by some

of the answers. So what I want us to do this week is to reflect on five things to think about

when you come to the Lord's Supper. And because simplicity is of the essence of the

supper, I'm going to focus each day on just one word. Today's word is proclamation. Paul writes in

1st Corinthians 11, verse 26, as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death.

Now, I've sometimes heard it said that you shouldn't have the Lord's supper without a sermon because of what Paul is teaching here.

Well, it's surely right to have a sermon and exposition of biblical teaching when we come to the table, however short it is.

But I'm not at all sure that's the kind of proclamation Paul is really thinking about here.

He's not saying there needs to be the Lord's Supper plus a sermon.

I think he's saying that the Lord's Supper is the sermon.

The Lord's Supper itself is the proclamation. Well, what does that mean?

This, I think. The supper is the gospel in dramatic form. Yes, we need words to interpret what's

happening, but when we understand the biblical teaching on the supper, we realize that it's actually

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