Ok...you'll never guess what happened in church this morning. Well, if you were there you will, but for the rest of you...
We were having our Baptism and Lord's Supper service. This is always a very special time in our church. It's always so cool to celebrate with new believers who are being baptized and having an opportunity to participate in their first Lord's Supper.
To understand what I saw from my viewpoint, I have to explain something about our church. Our sanctuary is divided into four downstairs sections of pews and the balcony. There are three entrances--one on the right side of the sanctuary (from the angle of the pulpit) and two at the back. Most people use the side entrance because that's what faces most of our education space and parking, but for some reason, the section of pews closest to that entrance is the least used. The balcony is always very full and the middle sections are full too. The left section is semi-full, but again, the right section (nearest the door) is pretty sparse.
Ok...on with the story. Today, during the Lord's Supper, we got through the bread just fine. However, I realized that during the cup, the section nearest the door (usually the most sparsely populated) was running out of juice very quickly. Now, we always have an extra supply of juice under the table, but that's usually used for one of the fuller sections (the ones in the middle). When the people serving that section closest to the door called for the extra supply, I knew we were in trouble!
Yep...you guessed it. We ran out of the juice representing the Blood of Jesus in our church this morning. So, 10 ushers were running around the back of the Sanctuary wondering what in the world we were going to do. Thankfully, we were able to just extend our time of worship a little bit and go over and get a little more juice to serve to the rest of the people.
Aren't you glad that the salvation of Christ doesn't depend on man's preparation? I'm so glad that the Blood of Jesus is available to ALL. He loves us and wants to have a relationship with us. Jesus shed His blood for us all. I was reminded of that today.
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I was personally apalled!
HA! (only kidding!)
Why didn't somebody just multiply the wine.....I mean grape juice?
Wasn't that something, kind of a cool problem to have ONCE.But even as that was going on I could not help but believe that God cared more about was in our heart than what was in the cup.
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