Every Other Religious Table

Sharing Options

When we come to this Table, the Bible teaches us that we are partaking. In Scripture, this partaking is not a divvying up, after which each person gets a distinct and separate piece. Partaking is a movement of union and communion.

The idolater partakes of the idol when he eats the food offered to that idol in worship (1 Cor. 10:20). The Levitical priests who ate the sacrifices are described as men who partook of the altar (1 Cor. 9:13). And we are described as being one because we partake of one loaf (1 Cor. 10:17). This means that partaking connotes sharing, union, closeness, and identification.

And this happens throughout the world—it happens everywhere. A special miracle of transubstantiation is not necessary in order to make it happen. If an idolater ate meat that had been sacrificed to Athena, it was not necessary for the meat to be transformed into the demon in order for the worshipper to be a partaker with demons. In the same way, it is not necessary for anything to happen to the bread and wine in order for us to partake of Christ as we eat and drink. This meal is not a miracle in the midst of a mundane world. Rather it is covenantal union with Christ in a world where covenantal union with something is inescapable. It will either be the Table of the Lord or the Table of demons. It is covenantal partaking, covenantal union, which is ordinary. It would take a miracle for this not to happen.

So this is the Table of Christ. The fact that you are here means you are forsaking every other religious table.

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