Ep 76: In Remembrance of Me (w/ Wes McAdams)

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Well, good morning and welcome
to the show.

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I'm Daniel Dalp and this is for
your Sunday Morning drive, the

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short podcast with the goal of
providing some motivation, some

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drive, and some encouragement on
your way to worship and helping

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you recenter your mind on those
spiritual things on a hectic

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Sunday morning.
This morning we have a special

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guest joining us, fellow
podcaster and brother in Christ,

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Wes McAdams.
Wes is the preaching minister at

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the McDermott Rd.
Congregation in Plano, TX and he

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hosts a a fantastic show, The
Radically Christian Podcast.

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I'm a long time listener and I
can tell you that you will

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benefit greatly from checking it
out.

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And personally, I, and our
little show here by extension,

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owe a lot to Wes McAdams.
You see, when I was first

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launching for your Sunday
morning drive, I wanted to get

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feedback and advice from who I
considered to be the best in the

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biz.
And for me, Wes was on the top

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of that list.
So I sent him my trailer.

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I didn't even have a full
episode recorded yet, and he

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gave me some kind encouragement
and then offered to have me on

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his show.
That really helped get the word

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out.
And it just solidified in my

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mind that Wes means what he says
in each of his podcast episodes

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when he says that he just wants
to help all of us learn to love

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like Jesus.
Anyway, all of that to say, Wes,

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thank you for joining us this
morning.

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This is episode 76.
In remembrance of me, let's go

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to church.
My mom often cried during

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communion when I was a kid and
all the adults were eating the

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bread and drinking from the
little communion cups.

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I sat there on my Pew, looking
around at all the faces and

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wondering what are they thinking
about?

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Some were reading from their
Bibles or just sitting there

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silently looking at the floor.
My mom was almost always crying.

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She didn't seem sad.
In fact, she was often smiling,

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her eyes closed, her face tilted
upward toward the ceiling, big

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tears streaming down her cheeks.
What was she so emotional about?

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What was going through her mind
right then?

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Was she feeling guilty?
Was she feeling thankful?

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After I was baptized and I
committed my life to Jesus, I

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began participating in this
weekly ceremony.

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The plate of bread and the tray
of cups was passed to me.

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I ate and drank with everyone
else.

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But now I was wondering, what am
I supposed to think about?

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Does it matter what I think
about?

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Do I ruin communion by not
thinking about the right things?

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Am I sinning if my mind wanders
and I start thinking about what

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we're having for lunch?
Should I be as as emotional as

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my mom?
Am I not as spiritual or godly

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if I don't cry during communion?
There's a passage in First

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Corinthians 11 that gives us an
idea about what we should be

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thinking about during communion.
However, it doesn't say what a

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lot of people think it says.
It actually might surprise you.

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What should be on our minds.
The apostle Paul is writing to

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the church in Corinth to address
some problems going on there.

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One of the problems was with the
way they were taking communion,

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what he calls the Lord's Supper.
But Paul actually says to them,

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when you come together, it's not
the Lord's Supper that you eat.

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The way they were eating,
communion was so wrong that Paul

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says it's not even the Lord's
Supper anymore.

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Why, What were they doing?
Paul goes on to say, for in

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eating, each one goes ahead with
his own meal.

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One goes hungry, another gets
drunk.

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What, do you not have houses to
eat and drink in?

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Or do you despise the Church of
God and humiliate those who have

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nothing?
What shall I say to you?

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Shall I commend you in this?
No, I will not.

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The problem in Corinth was that
they weren't sharing the bread

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and cup together.
They weren't eating it as a

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family.
Paul went on to remind them that

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Jesus said, do this in
remembrance of me.

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So we might think, Oh well,
that's the answer to the

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question.
We're supposed to be thinking

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about Jesus on the cross.
Yes, that's a good thing to be

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thinking about.
However, Paul means more than

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simply picture Jesus hanging on
the cross when you take

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communion.
He means we're eating this meal

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to remember why Jesus died, what
Jesus was accomplishing with his

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death.
Paul also warned them whoever

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eats the bread or drinks the cup
of the Lord in an unworthy

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manner will be guilty concerning
the body and blood of the Lord.

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Now obviously that's serious,
but don't worry, he isn't

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warning them about what will
happen if they accidentally get

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distracted or their mind wanders
during communion.

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Because he goes on to say that
we should discern the body while

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we eat and drink.
So what does that mean?

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Discern the body.
This phrase is also translated

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honor the body or evaluate the
body.

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It means recognize the
importance of the body.

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I think Paul has two meanings
here.

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The body of Christ that was
nailed to the cross, but also

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the church as the body of Christ
that we are a part of.

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He's telling these Christians
that while they eat and drink

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these representations of Jesus
body and blood, they should be

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honoring the church, the body of
Christ.

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It occurs to me that when I was
a kid, looking around at the

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other people in the room, my
mom, my dad, and the other

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adults, as they were sharing the
bread in the cup, I was thinking

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about them.
I was learning from them.

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I was curious about what was
going on in their heart and

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mind.
And that was actually very

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appropriate.
I didn't think I knew what to

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think about, but I actually did.
When we take communion, we

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should think about Jesus, about
how he died, but also why he

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died.
He died so that we could be a

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forgiven family, so that we
could be together, share this

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meal, and share our lives with
one another.

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So today when you eat and drink,
think about Jesus and think

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about his body.
Wes shared some great thoughts

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with us this morning, and I hope
that you'll carry those with you

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to worship today.
But now it's time to hear yours.

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Our discussion questions for
this week are, what do you

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normally think about during
communion?

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Have you ever been in a
communion service that was

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particularly moving?
And how can you think about the

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importance of the body while we
take communion this week?