Army of Priests

The Lord’s supper is a practice that, in my opinion, has been greatly underestimated by both the protestant and catholic traditions. This is a practice whose part in our faith is often questioned. In Protestantism the bread and wine is considered purely symbolic. Merely a reminder of the cross. Thus its importance can be questioned. In Catholicism it is suggested that the bread and the wine literally become the body and blood of Christ and is one of the sacraments required for salvation. It seems strange that the repeated consumption of bit sized pieces of bread and sips of alcohol would be required to get into heaven.

In this post I want to present a different way of thinking about it.

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Just imagine a world that was built on selflessness rather than greed…

There would be no bartering and no money and no keeping tabs of favours. Everyone would freely give there time and services to each other without expecting anything in return. If you were a doctor and someone was sick you would go and heal them at no cost, but that would be ok because someone else would feed you at no cost, give you clothes at no cost, and shelter you at no cost.

There would be no lazy people because everyone would love others and would thus be deeply motivated to work for the benefit of the greater whole. There would be no government, nor corporations, nor external entity that forces people to act. Instead everyone takes the initiative themselves.

We would all self organise to take out the rubbish and when a road between two towns would be advantageous we would naturally all pitch in our bit to help build it. Yet if you didn’t that wouldn’t matter because no one is keeping tabs because no one is greedy.

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When believers were first called “Christians” it was an insult. Jesus was considered a fool. He was a failed revolutionary – a mere Galilean who babbled riddles about loving our enemies and giving away all our possessions to the poor.

So Christians were also considered fools in that they followed a fool. They were so “foolish”, and so proud of their foolishness, that this became their name. They were the fool followers.

Today, Jesus is still a fool. Most people just don’t realise what He said.

When I tell people that Jesus said I must hate money (Mathew 6:24) and give away all our possessions to the poor (Luke 18:22) – they call me a fool.

When I tell people that Jesus said we must turn the other cheek (Mathew 5:39) and love our enemies (v 44), and that this excludes bombing them – they call me a fool.

When I tell people that Jesus said not to worry about our security (Mathew 6:25) and that ultimately even our death is unimportant (Mathew 16:24-25) – they call me a fool.

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