Connections

This simple, brief ceremony has connections with centuries of preparation and with matters of the highest order.

“Prophets who prophesied about the grace that would come to you searched out this salvation carefully. They wanted to find out what time or kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating about his sufferings and subsequent glories. They learned that they weren’t ministering these things to themselves but to you. The Holy Spirit, sent from heaven, has announced those things now through your evangelists—things angels long to look into” (1 Peter 1:10-13).

Communion connects with the long ages from Abraham to the cross and from the cross to friendship with God above.

What the prophets looked forward to we look back on and take our place in something whose length and height show how they could hardly be more important.

This ceremony becomes great by its connections with great things—with age-long preparation and ultimate issues. These connections imply the value God puts on us and the worth we see in ourselves through those connections.