Coming to the Table
These questions are connected to the message, Coming to the Table the first message in a 2-part series from Joash Thomas called Living the Table. You can watch it here.
- What stood out to you from this message? What challenged you, inspired you, or confused you?
- What does being part of a Christ-centered church like Lakeside mean to you?
- How has participating in communion influenced your personal spiritual journey and relationship with God? If you don’t have much experience with communion, what is your understanding of it and what questions do you have?
- What are some potential pitfalls or misunderstandings people might have about the communion table, and how can we address these?
- Read the poem from St. Teresa of Avila below and think about how the words, “Christ has no body now on earth but yours.” What feelings does this stir up in you? What practical things can we do to be the hands and feet of Jesus?
Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.