26.09.11 “THE most Pivotal Event in History?” (1 Cor. 10:16,17)

I’m sure I don’t need to draw your attention to the significance of today’s date. Just the words “9/11” very likely recall horrific images in your memories and stir up deep emotions in your heart… at least if you are older than age 20 or so. Saying that causes my heart to skip a beat. Do you realize how many people are alive in our world today, for whom 9/11 is nothing more than a historical event they’ve read or heard about, or maybe seen pictures of? Yet that day changed our world in so many ways, didn’t it? Not unlike December 7, 1941, do you agree? For that reason may I call 9/11 a ‘pivotal’ moment in history?

Now, hold that thought, while you join me again with the apostle Paul as he is writing a very significant document, which has affected hundreds of millions of people since 55ad when Paul wrote the letter we know as 1 Corinthians, found in your Bible. Today let’s continue in 1 Corinthians 10, with these words Paul wrote, found in vs. 16: “Is not the cup of thanksgiving, for which we give thanks, a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?“ (1 Corinthians 10:16)