What do you think of when you take communion?

[Mountainmanbob]

First of all I come very humbly before God.

Sharing with Him the larger of my recent sins and struggles.

From my mind and heart a sorrowful repentance.

A deep gratefulness for communion.

A slight joyful feeling of cleanliness
with yet another new start.

M-Bob

 

[TuxAme]

"Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed"

 

[devin553344]

First of all I come very humbly before God.

Sharing with Him the larger of my recent sins and struggles.

From my mind and heart a sorrowful repentance.

A deep gratefulness for communion.

A slight joyful feeling of cleanliness
with yet another new start.

M-Bob

I pray that God will bless me with the remission of sins. After doing some reading on the topic of remission, I think I will also pray that God will pay for my debt and purchase me from evil, since I have at times sold myself into evil by sinning.

I mean really, who wants to be owned by an evil master? I think I would like to be purchased by a good Master

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Thank you Lord Jesus for your broken body and your shed blood that freed me from sin.

 

[Tigger45]

Realizing that I/we am/are seriously communing with the Lord.

 

[Tigger45]

His bones were not broken, but we can say that His body is.

Remember, Jesus broke the bread and gave it to His disciples, saying "This is my Body". Jesus was made known to the disciples on the road to Emmaus in the breaking of the bread, which is His body.

Right, the ‘breaking of bread’ is symbolizing His physical death by execution.

 

[Tayla]

What do you think of when you take communion?

I feel like I'm in the direct presence of Jesus as he is sacrificed on the cross.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

I feel humbled at Jesus sacrifice.

 

[Jonaitis]

I'm drawn to meditate on my personal fellowship with Christ's salvific person and work, that I consume this picture of his body and blood as an illustration of my participation and communion in his redemption, righteousness, and kingdom. Then, I think either along with that, or after that, of the whole congregation as fellowshipping together as members of this one body as one body, and this blood as from one fountain, whereby we are all washed as the covenant community from our sins and presented a holy bride to Christ.

I am inclined more to think of myself as my redemption is received via membership in the body (or covenant), whom Christ died for, than I am merely for myself on a individual, solitary basis. This sacrament brings this kind of thinking out, that without a participation with and in the body (or covenant), we have no salvation. Christ died for his body, not just the individual members in it, but collectively. His blood cleanses the Church of God, and we being members of that Church are washed in the blood.