09/04/2026
The Table has been pushed to the side for too long
Communion was never meant to become a decorative church tradition something scheduled occasionally, hurried through, and forgotten before the service ends. The Lord gave His Church a table that keeps bringing us back to a cross.
Because the Table does something uncomfortable.
It makes us remember.
It forces the wandering heart to look again at the broken body.
It makes the compromised heart stare again at the blood.
It confronts our bitterness.
Our pride.
Our secret grudges.
Our hidden sin.
Our careless treatment of one another.
Paul did not say, eat casually.
He said:
“Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.”
—1 Corinthians 11:28
There is an examination built into communion.
Before you reach for the bread, look inward.
Before you drink from the cup, look backward to Calvary.
Then look across the room at the Body of Christ and ask whether you are living like someone purchased by that blood.
That is why we need the Table again.
We have learned how to attend church without visiting the cross.
We can sing while offended.
Preach while proud.
Serve while bitter.
Pray publicly while refusing to repent privately.
But communion interrupts the performance.
The bread says, His body was broken for you.
The cup says, your forgiveness cost blood.
And suddenly our excuses become very small beneath the shadow of that cross.
Jesus said:
“Do this in remembrance of Me.”
Not merely remember a doctrine.
Remember Him.
Remember Gethsemane.
Remember the scourging.
Remember the nails.
Remember the mercy.
Remember what sin costs.
Remember what grace purchased.
Remember that the person sitting beside you was bought with the same blood you claim covers you.
Bring holy communion back into the house of God not as ritual, but as remembrance.
Not superstition.
Not empty ceremony.
A holy interruption.
A moment where the Church becomes quiet enough to ask:
Lord, search me.
Where have I drifted?
Who have I refused to forgive?
What have I tolerated that You died to free me from?
Where have I dishonored Your Body?
Where have I forgotten the price?
The early Church understood something we desperately need to recover: we are a people gathered around Christ, His Word, His Spirit, His people and His Table.
Every time we eat the bread and drink the cup, we “proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.” —1 Corinthians 11:26
The Table looks backward to Calvary.
It examines us in the present.
And it points forward to His return.
So bring us back to the Table.
Bring reverence back.
Bring repentance back.
Bring reconciliation back.
Bring trembling gratitude back.
Let the bread break our pride before pride breaks our fellowship.
Let the cup remind us that we did not save ourselves.
And let the Church remember again:
We are not gathered because we are righteous.
We are gathered because the Lamb was slain.
Eat.
Drink.
Remember.
Examine yourselves.
Discern the Body.
And do not allow the cross to become familiar.
Church, visit Calvary again.
Nicholas Torres
