What an unappealing sermon title! Who in their right mind would want to go listen to a preacher that just goes on and on, not knowing when to conclude. Maybe you have been in a service like that – where you thought the sermon was never going to end. Maybe you have thought that about me sometimes.

The title of my message this week isn’t referencing the actual message this Sunday. I promise you – it will not go on forever. Instead, the title is referencing a message we are all to proclaim without end. That message is found in our observance of the Lord’s Table / Communion. This Sunday we will not only participate in the communion service but I will teach on it from 1 Corinthians 11. In that passage the Apostle Paul instructs us to continue to proclaim the truths found in communion until the return of the Lord. And that is the Sermon that Never Ends. 

Communion is an important aspect of our spiritual life because it takes us back to the beginning point of our relationship with God; That we are all condemned in our sin, but in Christ we are saved through His blood and death on the cross. Communion, in the simplicity of the bread and the wine, takes us back to the foot of the cross, reminding us we are only saved by Christ’s vicarious sacrifice for us. Romans 8:32 reminds us that if God was willing to give up His own Son for us, what else would he withhold from us? Nothing. Communion provides a reset for us and challenges us to live not in our own strength, but in the strength of all that Christ provides for us. When we do that, we become the living sermon of the Gospel that never ends. Join us this Sunday as we share the elements of communion and discover how we can be a gospel message to all that we encounter.