{"id":2640,"date":"2016-10-25T00:51:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T05:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2016-10-25T00:51:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T05:51:46","slug":"3-reasons-excited-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/2016\/10\/25\/3-reasons-excited-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons to Be Excited for Every Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We had a sweet, young girl become a Christian recently at my home congregation. Her father baptized her, and altogether it was a sweet moment, and we are blessed to have a new sister in Christ at our church. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The very next Sunday was her first communion, and it had come quickly since she was baptized on a Wednesday. And let me tell you that she was <i>so<\/i> excited to be having her first Lord\u2019s Supper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Dear reader, let me ask you something: do you remember your first communion? Do you remember the first day you finally got to partake of the Lord\u2019s Supper and not just pass down the plate to your parents? Now, let me ask you something else: do you still look forward to the Lord\u2019s Supper today? If not, how do you get excited for it, even after being a Christian for many years? And why should we still be excited?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Because of its importance in God\u2019s Word<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> When was the last time you read the account of Jesus giving the first Lord\u2019s Supper to His disciples? For this post, let\u2019s talk about the account from Luke 22:14-23:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">And when the hour came, He reclined at table, and the apostles with Him. And He said to them, \u201cI have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.\u201d And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks He said, \u201cTake this, and divide it among yourselves. For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.\u201d And He took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, \u201cThis is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.\u201d And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, \u201cThis cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!\u201d And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Why did I choose this passage instead of the account from Matthew or Mark? I chose to share this set of verses with you because of the way this passage fits in the great history of Jesus\u2019 ministry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">After Jesus gave this Lord\u2019s Supper to His disciples, He knew exactly what was going to happen: Judas Iscariot would betray Him, and He would later be tried and crucified and rise again after three days. But the disciples didn\u2019t know any of this; in fact, when Jesus mentioned a betrayal, they immediately speculated who it could be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> The Lord\u2019s Supper was given in a time of great turmoil for Jesus, but He still gave his disciples a way to remember Him, and in turn, He gave us this way to remember Him, too. His example was given out of His great love for us, and we should remember that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Because it gives us a chance to self-reflect<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> There are times when my mind has wandered during the Lord\u2019s Supper. I don\u2019t like to admit that, but it\u2019s true; it seems as though my mind runs over every single thing I have to do in the week that the Lord\u2019s Supper just runs in the background. But this should not be so, and this is something I am working on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Paul encouraged the Corinthians in his first letter to \u201cLet a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself\u201d (1 Corinthians 11:28-29). It\u2019s important for us to do the same. Self-evaluation in your walk with God is healthy, and it will keep you on the straight and narrow path (Matthew 7:13-14).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Because it gives us a chance to remember what Christ did for us<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Not only should we reflect on ourselves and our own walks with God, but we should also remember exactly what Christ did for us, and why we\u2019re taking the Lord\u2019s Supper in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> We take the Lord Supper in remembrance of Him (Luke 22:18). We want to remember what He did for us \u2013 His earthly ministry, His death, His burial, and His resurrection \u2013 all so that we can live eternally with the Lord and Savior we love. He loves us so much that he would do <i>all<\/i> of these things for us (John 3:16). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> So, at the end of all of this, we should still keep the zeal and excitement about the Lord\u2019s Supper alive because of the opportunities it offers us to read God\u2019s Word, reflect on our own faith, and remember the greatness and unsurpassable love of our Lord and Savior. All of this should get us excited \u2013 and keep us excited \u2013 even after we\u2019ve been Christians for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> So, when you see a new Christian celebrating their first Lord\u2019s Supper, celebrate with them. After all, God and the Angels are rejoicing, too: \u201cJust so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents\u201d (Luke 15:10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>By Savannah Cottrell<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a sweet, young girl become a Christian recently at my home congregation. Her father baptized her, and altogether it was a sweet moment, and we are blessed to have a new sister in Christ at our church. The very next Sunday was her first communion, and it had come quickly since she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,32],"tags":[49,757,802,758,476],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-church","tag-church","tag-communion","tag-eucharist","tag-lords-supper","tag-savannah","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>3 Reasons to Be Excited for Every Sunday - Focus Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/2016\/10\/25\/3-reasons-excited-sunday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 Reasons to Be Excited for Every Sunday - Focus Press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We had a sweet, young girl become a Christian recently at my home congregation. 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