Celebrate Easter with Communion

This week please consider sharing communion as a Connection Group to “proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes” (1 Cor. 11:26).  Here is some help for you:

 

Connection Group Communion (first week of April – between Palm Sunday and Easter)

Between Palm Sunday (April 1) and Easter (April 8) we ask each Connection Group to consider sharing communion together.  How?  Plan for a pot luck meal (this is what the first-century believers called a “love feast.”).  Go around the table and invite every person to reflect on what Christ has done for them by His death on the cross.  Was there bondage to a specific sin that has been broken?  Has the promise of heaven transformed their life on earth?  Has cold religion been transformed into the warm embrace of our heavenly Father?

 

Find a passage that you want to share to conclude the sharing.  You could read the account of the crucifixion (such as Luke 23:26ff).  You could use Day 13 of the Prayer Guide.  Or use a passage you have found that uniquely points you to the cross.

 

Having read the passage, take a single, unbroken loaf (you may want to buy a matzo “cracker” from the grocery store or just use an unsliced loaf of bread) and pass it around the table, allowing each person to break off their portion of the one loaf (each of us receiving our gift of life from the single sacrifice of Christ).  Then take a goblet of grape juice (or wine) and pass it around the table allowing each to receive from the single cup.^[1]   You can refer to 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (and 10:14-17) as well as Luke 22:7-20.

 

Consider closing with a song of praise.  

 

If you would like to do a much more elaborate Passover “seder” meal, see…

http://www.cresourcei.org/haggadah.html

 

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^[1] If fear of the flu bug makes this unappealing, consider having a single pitcher from which you pour a portion into each individual cup to drink from.