January 12, 2014: Bread and Wine – Kent Dobson

One of the things the believers devoted themselves to was the “breaking of bread.” How strange. Of all the things they were devoted to … it was Eucharist? Why was this meal so central to the life of that early community? Perhaps because they recognized that in the death and resurrection of Jesus there was a whole new world that came about. One that changed all things – the way they thought, lived, saw the world, etc. It had to be central, because the death of Jesus itself was completely central.

As such this was one of a few things that mattered to them. What would it be like to return to this? We find so many things to say “yes” to and “no” to. We find so many things to disagree on. But what if we took the bread and took the wine. We just might find we can say yes to that.