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Remember, we have agreed to respectfully and lovingly disagree with one another. What do you know? Perhaps we can learn from and be enriched by each other's understanding. (Note: I will exclude from the online discussion any who, in my opinion, are sarcastic and unloving in their manner.)
Q1. How does your particular understanding of the bread and the wine (literal or figurative) help you grow closer to Christ when partaking of the Lord's Supper? (Note: This question is not your excuse to argue, but to learn from one another's personal experience of partaking.)
Thank God. It gives me great pleasure to say thanks for this study. I am a BCM student (Batchelore of Christian Ministry) and am doing this as a parttime as I am employed here in Qatar. I was in search of some materials regarding Lords Supper. Here it is very difficult to get any Christian study books. This lesson really helped me to ensure my understanding about Lords Supper. I was thinking, during the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, Jesus took the bread and blessed; it is clear that he symbolised his body and blood going to shed for the world. Even that time Jesus was not crusified. I want to learn more about this.
Q2. Extreme Symbolism
in 1. My Body, My Blood -- Literal or Figurative?
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I will share my understanding. Little respect to the worship (includes everything) is mainly depends on two things.
1. Lack of Knowledge or Holiness of the participant
2.Testimony of the assigned person (Leader of the service)
First point- everyone have to examine themselves in the presense of the Lord
To explain second point- I would like to share a story...Once there was an Evangelist...preaching in a market place about Jesus Christ and his Ressurrection. People gathered around him to hear from him. After 5 minutes a magician arrived there and started showing magic. Then the people around Evangelist moved to him one by one. At last there was no one to hear from the evangelist. After the program magician has got lot of money. At last only the Magician and Evangelist left there, then the Evangelist approached the magician and asked him what is his secret of attracting people. He replied, The people knows that what I am doing is not real. But I present it as if it is a real one. But in your case whatever you are saying is fact but you present it in a way that it never happened.
If I know Jesus personnally, I could present him in that way. Otherwise what ever I am doing will be simply actions. Let us try to know Jesus more and more (than 'about Jesus')