Reflection Questions:

  1. Can you imagine a life of no sin? What would it have been like to be in Jesus’s sinless earthly presence 2000 years ago?

  2. How significant is it that Jesus himself bore our sins on the cross? Can you think of a modern day analogy?

  3. In what ways today do you need the healing that Jesus’s work on the cross provides?

Spiritual Practice: Communion

“For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” (1 Cor 11:26)

Take some time today to prepare a time of communion with the elements of bread/crackers and juice/wine for yourself (and family). Before partaking, take some time to examine yourself, confessing to God the ways you have fallen short and then also take time to receive God’s forgiveness. Then continue with the liturgy below.

Communion Liturgy:

On the night in which Jesus gave himself up for us,
  he took bread, gave thanks, broke the bread,
  gave it to his disciples and said:
“Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.”
When the supper was over, Jesus took the cup
  gave thanks, gave it to his disciples, and said:
“Drink from this, all of you;
  this is my blood of the new covenant,
  poured out for you and for many
  for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this as often as you drink it,
  in remembrance of me.”

End in a time of remembrance and gratitude for the act of love Jesus performed on the cross. By His blood we are fully forgiven, made fully right with God and adopted into God’s family.