The Lord’s Supper — Somber or Cheerful?

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🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Communion calls to mind the most tragic event in the history of the world and the greatest hope ever offered. Only mature believers can set that tone.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to a new week on the Aspastur John podcast with a long time author and pastor
0:09.0	John Piper.
0:10.8	Today's question comes from a listener named Morgan.
0:13.6	Dear Pastor John, it seems to me that some churches are more solemn when they celebrate
0:17.8	the Lord's Supper.
0:19.4	Other churches seem to be more cheerful in the reminder of what Jesus has done for us.
0:24.0	Is this a false dichotomy?
0:26.1	What is the proper tone of the Lord's table?
0:30.0	Or cheerful?
0:32.0	I think the main thing I want to say is that it is not a decision for children to make.
0:40.6	It's not a decision for immature people with little experience of suffering and sorrow
0:46.5	and sustaining grace to make.
0:50.2	This is a decision.
0:51.5	How to do the Lord's Supper?
0:55.3	Is a decision for battle, proven, scarred, rugged warriors of the faith who have come
1:03.6	through much suffering with eyes bright and lips smiling in hearts full of joyful
1:09.7	hope and tears running down their faces.
1:14.1	They're the ones who would know how to design a service for every level of Christian.
1:20.6	Children and immature people with little life experience don't have the kind of complex
1:24.9	emotional categories that are necessary to create the kind of atmosphere that reflects
1:30.1	the realities of the Lord's Supper.
1:33.0	Children are either bouncing off the walls happy or their moody or angry or solemn or
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