A Holy Meal: The Lord’s Supper in the Life of the Church (Biblia.com)

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The Lord’s Supper refuses the rolling pin. It cannot be flattened into something of our own making. In the Lord’s Supper, the Triune God breaks out of the boxes we construct in vain to domesticate Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That is the message of Gordon Smith’s A Holy Meal. He writes with the conviction that the holy meal instituted by Jesus continues to challenge our assumptions about the...

the church to live in the world but as participants in the reign of God. We are in but not of the world. Both of these—the relationship with God through the ascended Christ and the way of being in the world while under the rule of God—are effected in our lives through the work of the Spirit. What we ask for when we pray for the gift of the Spirit is known and experienced in the holy meal. Or to put it differently, when we ask for the Spirit, what we long for is precisely what is offered to us in

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