The Lost Supper: Reawakening Communion's Power to Guide Us Through Life's Storms

In record numbers the faithful are leaving the church to find healing. Theyre on their way to therapists and twelve step programs seeking places where they can confess habitual patterns of sin amongst others who can help them. But is this what God wants? His people leaving the church to find healing? I believe He has given us the most effective program available for maintaining emotional and spiritual health: Communion. Yes Communion. If thats true why has this ceremony become the almost mundane weekend ritual that it has for most? Could it be that overemphasizing grace and underemphasizing self-examination has compromised Communions power to shatter these sin patterns? Has largely ignoring its mandates to confess repent and reconcile actually driven the faithful to worldly solutions and away from the church? Has something powerful been lost by hurriedly observing it in large groups with little time for thoughtful reflection and interaction? Has partaking unworthily led the church into judgment in the form of spiritual weakness sickness and sleep? The Lost Supper compares the biblical foundations of both Old and New Testament Passovers to the popular twelve step programs that have delivered so many from addictions. It demonstrates them to be in both practice and theory identical. Through restoring the balance of grace and confession in the small group setting the self-examination process so critical to unleashing Communions power can again be realized. By putting into practice the principles in this book a measure of healing can be brought back to the church through the regular practice of the ceremony God gave His people to facilitate confession and intimate fellowship. Of all the moments Jesus shared with His disciples He said exclusively of His Passover I have earnestly desired to do this with you. Read The Lost Supper and find out why!