Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Good Morning!

Email/internet problems this morning, so coming out late today.

The new unit for this week is Unit 7 , The Lord's Supper

Focus Scripture for the Week: Acts 2:42

They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Today's scripture: Luke 22:14-30

-- this scripture is more focused on the actual event of the Lord's Supper, but there is the bit at the end about the disciples squabbling about who was the greatest. To me, that is the perfect proof that the disciples, in spite of what Jesus had been saying all along, and in spite of the words he had just said, had any idea of what was going to happen to Jesus. Certainly, you and I, knowing what we know now, would have not fallen into the same discussion.

-- Wesley's writings offer up an interesting dilemma, not just for our class, but for most Methodists - if Wesley thought that communion once a week was ideal, how can we aspire to follow that example? The Catholic Church has communion at every Mass, and some Catholics take communion every day. As aside, I remember that Mike Shula, who is Catholic, was a player at Alabama, he went to Commuion/Mass every morning. Anyway, this is a question that we can ask Bobby about.

Today's prayer request: Alex Lloyd, Monica's nephew

He is having major surgery to correct his hip joint problems -- he is still facing a sigificant amount of rehab time even after this surgery.

Today's class member prayer:

Michelle Ray

Have a great day.

Jay