A Meal Following Atonement

You are not summoned to this Table to make atonement for your sins.  You are summoned to this Table because your sins have been atoned for.  You are not summoned to this Table in order to find forgiveness.  You are summoned to this Table because you have been forgiven.

You are not summoned to this Table to be reconciled to God.  You are summoned to this Table because you have been reconciled to God.  You are not summoned to this Table to find peace with God.  You are summoned to this Table because you have peace with God.

Why do we get this mixed up?  Because we are tempted to not believe that the atonement, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross for our sins – really took care of our sins.  We are tempted to believe that we still need to do something in order to make us right with God.  And this Table is to remind you, for it is a memorial, that there is nothing left to be done.  Come and eat, come and sit and fellowship with God, come and partake with the body of Christ by partaking of the body of Christ.