Traditions: Communion Part 1

This series is designed to help us better understand our church traditions and why we do what we do. Find Jesus, community, and purpose. https://southeastcc.org Good morning family. How are you? I'm so excited. I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you. We are going to take this week and next week, and we're going to wrestle with communion. Why do we do it? What is it? Where'd it come from? Why do we do it every week as a church? And so this week, today, we're going to spend time talking about the origins of communion. And then next week, we're going to do a nice leisurely stroll through 2000 years of church history. Easy. Easy. We will be moving at an incredible rate of speed, but, we're going to focus in on the origination of what we call the Lord's Supper or communion, or if you came from a more liturgical tradition, they will call it the Eucharist. Sometimes you can hear it's called that. But we're going to talk about this, where did it come from. So I'm super stoked. This is all rooted in the Passover, which we just a couple of weeks ago celebrated Easter and the whole good Friday. And all of those things are all part of the Passover tradition in the Christian, from the Christian side. So we want to take a look at that. Now we're going to look at the Seder dinner that the Lord’s Supper, that communion, was taken from, kind of originates from. And specifically, if you've been to a Seder dinner, you may or may not have been to a modern Seder. It's slightly different than the Seder of the first century, but, and that's wonderful. There's nothing wrong with it, but I'm particularly interested in the ancient Seder and how it ties to the gospel stories. How we see it being played out in what the gospels are saying. And so that's what we're going to focus on because I think that what we'll see there is something that's really, in my opinion, it's very compelling, and it moves me. It moves me to tears every time that I think about it. So at least three tim