Week 4 of Breaking Bread: 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Getting to Know you: What were/are the “tables” in your high school cafeteria (or an analogous setting)? [example: the jocks, the nerds, the emo kids] Which table did you sit at?
Day 1:
Getting to know the Bible: Read 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
What is the new covenant?
How are the Corinthians dishonoring the new covenant?
How is this scene an issue of justice [or injustice as the case may be]?
How do I apply myself to this message?
Compare and contrast the way you participate in Communion with how the Corinthians were practicing it?
Day 2:
Getting to know the Bible:
Pick one of these accounts of the Last Supper to read about [try a different one from what you’ve read in the previous weeks]:
Matthew 26.17-30
Mark 14.12-26
Luke 23.1-24
What strikes you? What makes you uncomfortable? What encourages you?
What is something you new you notice in the account you read this week?
What similarities do you see between the 1 Corinthians story and the account you just read of the Last Supper?
How do I apply myself to this message?
Day 3:
Getting to know the Bible: Read Genesis 17 and Ephesians 2:11-13
What is the “old covenant”?
What is the “new covenant”?
What do these covenants tell you about who God is and how He engages His creation [us]?
How do I apply myself to these messages?
What does partaking in communion do to “bring you near” and to whom?