Do It With All Your Heart!

I began my Christian ministry in 1946 in an Arab town called Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem. It’s no longer a town; it’s a much bigger city today. At that time, my first wife and the children, the language of our home was Arabic. There are certain things that you get into you that you never get out of you. Whenever I think of the communion service, or taking the Lord’s Supper, or the Eucharist, or whatever you want to say, I always think of what the Arabs say: “Khalina nishrib dam Yesua.” Let us drink the blood of Jesus. That was not some strange, super-spiritual phrase. That was their way of talking about the communion.

There may be many ways to apply this, but for me, when I take the communion, I eat His flesh and I drink His blood. Now that’s a stumbling block for some people. How can I help that? We have been taught, some of us, that we do it just as a memorial. That’s not what Jesus said.