Until He comes: A personal invitation to be with Christ

We will now celebrate Holy Communion in remembrance of what Jesus did, but also with a view to His return: "Until He comes again." Those who celebrate Holy Communion also express their belief in the return of Christ. Holy Communion is a communal meal, but also a personal encounter with the Lord. I don't want to portray it dramatically, but I want to change this sentence a bit: Jesus says it to you and me: "And I will come back to take YOU with Me, so that YOU are where I am".

The Lord Jesus wants YOU personally, He wants YOU. It is His greatest wish that you are with Him forever, very personally, very precisely, He wants you with Him. Everyone has to decide: Do I want that too? Not just because I want to escape this world, because I'm not doing so well, everything is so difficult and not okay, and I want to be freed from it - no, that's not the right motivation. We want to be with Him simply because we love Him and we long to have fellowship with Him.

To prepare for that, we just have to become like Him. We can only be with Him if we are like Him, that's our motivation… Let's celebrate this Communion as a confession of faith: "Yes, I believe in the return of the Lord, yes I want to be there, yes I want to be like that, I want to be like Jesus Christ." (CA Schneider, Switzerland 2023).