This past Sunday, we began a new journey together, learning to Love Like Jesus. And we started in a place that’s both simple and challenging: Jesus washing feet.
It’s such a striking picture. On the night before the cross, Jesus didn’t give His disciples a lecture or a list of demands. He knelt down, took the posture of a servant, and did what no one else wanted to do. He loved them in a way that was personal, humble, and costly. That kind of love doesn’t just inspire us, it reorients us. It invites us to ask: What need is God showing me? Where is Jesus calling me to serve? Who is He asking me to love in a way that causes me to stretch beyond my comfort zone?
This Sunday, we’re continuing to learn how to Love Like Jesus by breaking bread at the communion table. This meal illustrates one of the most stunning truths in all the Gospels: Jesus practices radical inclusion at the table.
On the night of the Last Supper, Jesus didn’t wait until the room was “safe.” He didn’t excuse Himself until the disciples’ motives were pure and the loyalty was proven. He sat down with the very people who would betray Him, deny Him, and desert Him, and still, He offered Himself to them.
That’s what makes this meal so holy…
Because Christ meets us at the communion table, He breaks bread and says, “I know who you are, I know what you’ve done, I know what you’re about to do… And I’m giving Myself to you anyway.” Not because we deserve it, but because Jesus is showing us what grace looks like. The communion table becomes the clearest sign that God’s love is not fragile, not selective, and not earned.
We don’t come to Communion because we have it all together. We come because we don’t. We come because we need mercy, strength, forgiveness, and hope. We come because Jesus welcomes imperfect people, and then uses His love to send us out to transform the world.
So, I want to invite you to join us this Sunday for Holy Communion. If you’ve felt unworthy, distant, hesitant, or unsure…this is exactly the kind of table Jesus sets. There is room for you.
And if you can, come a little early and bring someone with you, because at the 11:00 a.m. service, our Kids Choir will be singing. It’s one of the best reminders that the church isn’t just a gathering of adults, it’s a family, being formed together, generation to generation.
God bless,
Jonathan Smith
For Jesus. For People. For Community.