Husbands, lead your family members in a time of prayer for repentance. Next, if you live with family members, spend some time preparing them as well. Carry this attitude of repentance with you throughout the week as you approach the table, and then that short prayer on Sunday as you hold the elements in your hands will be much more meaningful. This gives you time to reflect unlike the 2 minutes you may have during the worship service. Maybe there is known sin that you bring before Him, and also ask Him to reveal unknown sins. It should begin the week before you show up on Sunday to partake with your fellow believers.įirst, it should be a personal reflection and prayer time with the Lord to ask Him to reveal any sin in your life that you are unrepentant about.
My understanding of the Bible’s teaching on communion has drastically grown over the last year or so and now, I’m beginning to see and believe that preparing your heart to take communion can be a weeklong process.
#BIBLE VERSE ABOUT FORGIVENESS AND COMMUNION FULL#
That is certainly a good, right, and biblical thing to do, but I don’t believe that’s the full extent of what it means to “take cup in a worthy manner” (1 Corinthians 11:27). I was taught the significance of communion and told that we were to prepare our hearts to take it, but I always thought that meant just simply bowing my head during communion and asking God to forgive me of known and unknown sins. So I would try to break off as big a piece of bread as possible when it was passed my way. Our church always had homemade bread during communion, which was what I looked forward to because let’s face it: as a kid, when 12:00 rolls around on Sunday, all you’re thinking about is food (which is also true of me now that I’m an adult). As a matter of fact, Sunday was a very long day at church because we would show up for Sunday school at 9:30, have a worship service at 10:45, and then a communion service would follow.
I grew up in a church where we took communion every single Sunday.
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