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Practical application: When you take the bread and cup, you’re connecting with that night. II. The practice of the Lord’s Supper connects yourself to God Jesus has the audacity to take something you can put in your hands and say, “This is me.” How? “High view” (Catholic tradition): This bread is literally me; this is literally the saving grace without which you perish. If you don’t eat the Lord’s Supper, you’re not saved. John 6:40 refutes this. The problem with this is that the night He said this, He was holding the bread, so it must have been symbolic. “Low view” (Protestant tradition): This bread symbolizes me; it symbolizes saving grace. The problem with this is John 6:54 says, “Unless you eat…” The word “remember” began by meaning the opposite of dismember. To take something and graft it back on. Practical application: If you’re anxious, despondent, depressed: What you believe in your head is detached from your heart, and you need to remember. If Jesus isn’t broken, you’re lost; if He’s broken, you’re made whole. III. The practice of the Lord’s Supper connects the individual to community vs. 18 “there are divisions among you”; Paul is essentially saying, “You’re not recognizing that you’re a part of a body. [The Lord's Supper] is a communal meal. The whole point of the gospel is that it gives you a completely new way to look at God and yourself. Once you believe that in Christ punishment for your sins falls on Him, you realize that the bad things that happen aren’t punishment But God does use life’s troubles to shape us
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