The Community of Communion

In a dispatch for The Local Church, Derek Rishmawy reflects on how the Lord’s Supper is a rehearsal dinner for the ultimate wedding feast with the Lamb of God. He writes, “It’s the meal where we currently commune with Jesus through the power of the Spirit—he meets us mysteriously in the bread and the wine. Yet as we meet with him, we’re reminded that our time with him face to face is still yet to come. It’s the sort of presence that makes us more palpably aware of his absence. In that sense, ...