The Meaning Of Table Worship

At the Table of the Lord, the church recalls God's saving acts in Christ and experiences the benefit of healing. For some, the complicated set of prayers that belong to the Table through biblical precedent and historical tradition may seem tedious and unnecessary. However, let it be remembered that, at the Table, God's people celebrated the entire history of salvation from creation through God's calling of Israel to the Incarnation, death, Resurrection, ascension, and coming in glory of Christ together with the church's response of faith. The Table is a drama of the meaning and mystery of human existence revealed in Christ. Consequently, Table worship should not be done haphazardly or in haste as something tacked on to the end of worship. Indeed, what is done at the Table is the supreme act of Christian worship, the act that makes Christian worship uniquely different from Hebrew worship and that of other religions of the world.…