Happy New Year! I pray that 2026 will be your best year yet! I give thanks to God for each of you and am excited to see how God will work in each of our lives in this new year.
This Sunday we will share in the Communion of our Lord. Whether we want to admit it or not, we are religious people and can easily drift into doing things in the Christian life as an empty religious activity in place of why we should be doing it. Communion is an ordinance that we participate in that can definitely become an empty religious practice if we lose sight of why we share in communion. This Sunday we will look at what are likely the oldest words of the New Testament, an oral tradition that is recorded in 1 Corintians 11, which preserves the practice of communion for the church from the very beginnings of the church. In this familiar passage we will see a stern warning from the Apostle Paul, followed by clear directives of why and how we should participate in communion.
Communion serves as a reset for us in the Christian journey. Join us for this first Sunday of 2026 to make a reset in our spiritual lives that will invite God to do something great in our lives this year.