Welcome to Monday's Things Unseen.

If you were with us a few weeks ago, you may be a member 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 at all.

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 we're 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 1 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. You're 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

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