The Miracle Of CommunionFire To Light Up Your Life

1.2 Billion            Roman Catholics*
400 Million          Eastern Catholics (Eastern Orthodox)*
800 Million          Protestants, Evangelicals and Charismatics
                            170 Million Anglican/Lutheran*
                            630 Million "Not Constant Communion" 25,000 – 30,000 denominations

* These offer Communion Daily or at least Weekly as the Center Force of the Worship and Lifestyle Experience for almost 2,000 years. 

"Not Constant Communion" (majority since 1600) means No Constant Communion of Bread & Wine or Body & Blood daily or weekly. Constant Communion would mean daily or at least weekly. Those who are not having Constant Communion may not have Communion at all, or may have Annual Communion, Quarterly Communion or at most Monthly Communion. 

Of 2.4 Billion Professing Christians about 10% (240 Million) have Communion at least 4 times per week. This means that there is Communion Happening somewhere around the world every second of every day 24/7!

On the other side of the story, over 25% of Christians are not having regular Communion which is mostly comprised of 75% of Non-Catholics. 

Another interesting observation is that there may be several hundred divisions in Catholic & Orthodox Churches by geography or culture but most are in Communion with one of only a handful of 'headquarters' and all of these are offering constant Communion to the believers. On the other hand, there is no Communion Dialog among the 30,000 or more splintered Non-Catholic denominations outside the occasional leadership or missions conference. When Constant Communion is missing so is Communion among believers.  

Also we must consider that about 80% of all believers, Catholic and Non-Catholic, who have regular or occasional Communion don't wait long enough to enjoy the Miracle of Communion. They eat and run. What is the value of one encounter with the presence of Jesus? Is it not worth everything? All this Miracle needs is for you to use even the weakest faith to believe when you come to the Table. Believe Jesus is able to re-create the bread and wine you offer to become His Flesh and the wine to become His Blood. Then when you  eat, stop! Be still. He will open your eyes to His glory to recognize His image. When you drink, stop. Be still. He will share His message with you. 

"Be still and know that I am God." How. Stop. Look. Listen. 

What could be more important than experiencing the first hand Miracle of His presence every day? What other meal will feed and fill you on eternal life? 

So consider that 630 Million have caused the efficacy of Communion by their Confession, Articles of Faith or Statement of Faith to mere Bread and Wine/Grape Juice and a Memorial Script, symbol of The Gospel or Ritual that is supposed to empower us? Is this important? Who started all this Communion business anyway?

Jesus.

He said, "Do this".

Why? Is He the author of Church by-laws or the author and finisher of our faith? What kind of witness do we present with 30,000 independent schisms who can't even agree to a simple meal offered by the Son of God?

We have 21 meals a week to feed out physical body plus, fast food, snacks and libations. Constant Communion is over the top is we come to The Lord's Table to have a bite sized piece of bread and a sip of wine in less than 5 minutes once a day! Of course the meals that feed us physically top out right there except for the overall 'transformation' they effect on our body and state of mind. 

However the one small piece of the Bread of Life and the sip of the Wine of His Blood opens the way for us to feed upon a continuous banquet on what is eternal, makes us strong Spiritually and transforms us to become the person He created us to be. We literally experience The Apostle's Doctrine, "Christ in you the hope of glory!" 

So the meals of this life are physical and leave many of us in pretty bad shape and the meal Jesus offers us engages us in our new eternal life. The miracle is that He takes our small piece of bread and sip of wine and changes it into His Flesh and Blood. When we feed on the life He offers us we discover the revelation of His glory, life, love and joy of His presence. He is waiting, but many of us run off before He has a chance to even say , "I love you." He can't wait to share all that He has for you but you need to come to Him with empty hands and receive what He has prepared for you.

The effect of 'occasional Communion done a a ritual means the' Spiritual Food and Drink He provides us is missing as are the Charismatic Mysteries associated with it. In effect this nullifies or fogs in our awareness creating a system of disbelief. Is there a Real Presence of Jesus? Is there a Universal Orthodox understanding of The Communion of the Saints? Do you believe in The Holy Catholic Church? Do you believe in The Virgin Mary? (What do you believe?) Do you profess The Apostle's Creed? 

Christian Tradition is refueled through the power and process faith as we discover the mysteries Jesus offers us in CommunionFire with Him. Communion has always brought about the revelation of Christ’s Glory and Presence in Communion. Otherwise the understanding of "Christ in you the hope of Glory" is minimized by hypothetical mental ascent. "Christ in you the hope of glory" is the foundation teaching in the early Church and is referred to as The Apostles' Doctrine. It is by receiving and feeding upon the blessings given by His Flesh that the veil of this world parts to reveal His Glory. In His Glory we are transformed from glory to glory because it is Christ in us the hope of glory. Communion is literal not figurative. 

This also has an effect on understanding the grace and glory encountered when we understand that The Word (Logos) became Flesh and lived among us. Then The Word made Flesh says to “eat His Flesh" which is real food and "drink His Blood" which is real drink”. This enables the Holy Spirit to ‘bring to remembrance all things concerning Him’. In fact He says, "If you don't, you have no life in you!" 

He commanded/invited all who would to come to Him: The Children, The Weary, The Heavy Burdened The Hungry, The Thirsty, The Blind, The Halt, The Lame and those that have No Money to Come to His Table.

The eternal vision of many believers today has grown dim. We do not pause long enough to see Him waiting for us behind the torn veil of His Body or to hear His voice from His Blood that speaks more clearly than the blood of Abel. We are not still long enough to know that He Is God. We must trim our lamps and make sure there is enough oil to sustain us until Jesus returns for us.  Each of us needs to re-discover the seat Jesus has prepared with our name on it at His Table. Eating the Bread of Life and Drinking in the New Life He has for us at His Table is where you can "Be still and know that He is God." He anoints our head with oil and our cup runs over. So if the only hindrance for you is the veil of blindness about whether the bread can become His Flesh or the wine can become His Blood, then consider the following:

Certainly if He that could calm the seas, raise the dead, command the leper to be made clean, the woman with the issue of blood to be made clean, cast out demons, heal all who were sick, and command the lame to walk, the blind to see and the deaf to hear;

Certainly if He that could feed 12,000 on 7 loaves and 5 fish and 15,000 on 5 loaves and 2 fish with baskets left over and all being filled;

Certainly if He who was commended by the witness of His Father’s Voice from the heavens in His Baptism and Transfiguration;

Certainly if He who took a handful of local workers to bring the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the World for 2,000 years demonstrated that He is the force behind the building of this eternal Kingdom.   

Certainly if He that could lay down His life willingly and take it up again and then ascend into heaven and promise to return then sent the Holy Spirit while sitting at the right hand of His Father interceding for each one of us… could do all these things:

Then this begs the answer, could He not transform a simple piece of bread and sip of wine we bring to Him into an eternal meal of His own Flesh and Blood that can feed us forever? 

Think it not strange that the exterior is transformed by the interior from the temporal to the eternal. The Miracle of CommunionFire.

Why would He ask us to “Do this to remember Him?” 

Is it because He is the Father of non-productive Christian ritual or a script-writer of empty ceremony? Or is He possibly the ‘Enlivener of all’ who come to His Table every day? 

We aim to share the relentless love and passion Jesus has to share His love, life and glory by means of the meal that He invited us to receive from Him. 

This is a quiet revival that will shake you to the core. 

This is where we encounter and experience the power of the Cross that we preach about. 

This is where the Good News happens again and again every day for those who will fight for just a few minutes each day to dine upon Him so that you might dine with Him. 

This is the same Table of the Lord, as in the days of the Ark of the Covenant in ancient Israel, where He is seated waiting for you to sit with Him in heavenly places to see the difference between what is temporal and what is eternal. 

This is where He does what we cannot do in our own self-determination. He transforms us by exposing us to His glory where we are changed from glory to glory. 

This is where a day becomes a thousand years and a thousand years becomes one day! 

This is where we see Him as He is because He meets us where we are, as we are for who we are. 

This is where He transforms us to become the people He intended us to be the moment we were born! 

This is how the Lord is building His Church. It is how He has always been building His Church. His Table is where we realize His purpose for our lives, the presence of His love to make a wedding a marriage and the place where we realize He rose from the dead just two days ago and will be returning any moment. 

This is where we come face to face with the risen Christ like those from Easter to Pentecost. This is where we meet the Shepherd and Savior and see that He smiles often, laughs and has a great sense of humor. 

This is where we encounter His grace, gentleness, care, compassion, mercy and concern. This is where we feel His embrace, sense His touch and see His image. 

This is where we hear His gentle whisper and encounter the voice of His holy character, pure and clean where there are no shadows. 

This is where He shares His great and precious promises and we become partakers of His divine nature. This is where we find Him waiting to share all good things as quickly as He can. 

This is where we get to know Him personally, one-on-one and become first hand witnesses to a world that is starving to know if He is real or not! The Table of the Lord needs to be restored, in each and every Christian life and home as the center of our lives, worship and mission.