What's The Deal With World Communion Sunday?
It's a fairly common thing at BBC: meeting one another at the Lord's table on the first Sunday of every other month in our worship services. Yesterday was the correct time for our next gathering at the table, but it was also something more.
Annually, on the first Sunday of October, we observe World Communion Sunday at BBC. This special Sunday recognizes more than just BBCers gathering at the table, but that Christians from around the world –– in a variety of denominations–– also gather at that same table. It recognizes the unity we find at the communion table that reminds us that it's Jesus, and not us, who sets up the seating chart at this table.
First observed in 1933, World Communion Sunday sees Christians from all over the world observing communion on the same day. It's like we gather at one big, long, table that stretches across the world. On this day there are no geographical, theological, political, national, or race barriers to the table of Christ. No matter who a person is, or where they are from, they are welcome at this table.
World Communion Sunday reminds us that American Christians serve no higher place at the table than do Chinese Christians. Baptists sit down with Catholics while Methodists pass the bread. The only labels we carry are name-tags, a reminder that it is we who are created in the image of God that is important and that nothing else matters.
May these reminders of a big table carry us from this second Sunday in October to every Sunday that we gather.
Come, children of God – just as you are – to the table of Christ.
Annually, on the first Sunday of October, we observe World Communion Sunday at BBC. This special Sunday recognizes more than just BBCers gathering at the table, but that Christians from around the world –– in a variety of denominations–– also gather at that same table. It recognizes the unity we find at the communion table that reminds us that it's Jesus, and not us, who sets up the seating chart at this table.
First observed in 1933, World Communion Sunday sees Christians from all over the world observing communion on the same day. It's like we gather at one big, long, table that stretches across the world. On this day there are no geographical, theological, political, national, or race barriers to the table of Christ. No matter who a person is, or where they are from, they are welcome at this table.
World Communion Sunday reminds us that American Christians serve no higher place at the table than do Chinese Christians. Baptists sit down with Catholics while Methodists pass the bread. The only labels we carry are name-tags, a reminder that it is we who are created in the image of God that is important and that nothing else matters.
May these reminders of a big table carry us from this second Sunday in October to every Sunday that we gather.
Come, children of God – just as you are – to the table of Christ.
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