eating god ..

it's sundaygotomeetingday
and all across the planet people are taking time out of their busy lives
to eat their god
..

      some take this quite literally
         as in if you don't believe that what you are eating is god
         then you can't be one of us

strange thing, don't ya think ..

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in the evening
   before the deathangel passes over egypt
each household shall eat the lamb - all of you shall eat
you shall be standing - do not sit
you shall be dressed for travel, staff in-hand
you shall eat all of it - leave none uneaten
..


" go, prepare a place for us to eat the Passover meal "
..
and during the meal he took a loaf of bread, broke it and passed it around
saying to them " eat this, all of you .. it is my body broken for you "
..
later he poured wine into a cup and passed it around
and he said " drink this, all of you .. this is my blood shed for you "

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well, we christians have been tossing that around theologically ever since
we've even drawn lines in the sand over it
   don't you dare cross over
like there's literal vs. representative (transubstantiation vs. consubstantiation)
believers vs. unbelievers (in vs. out)
members vs. nonmembers (closed vs. open)
monthly vs. weekly
..

and we transform bread and wine into god
and we consume god
like we consume dinner
and god gets mixed-up with dinner
and passes out into the latrine ..

almost as if god was food
..
eating god to live
   so i can be alive
   and continue to live

god becomes my bread
my wine
   my flesh
   my blood
      my life

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and when you do this together
you remind yourselves
you bear testimony to each other
   of my death ..
this will give you life
   when you remember my death
      for you too must die
..

eat my body
drink my blood
live by me

i am doing this for you
for your life
that you might have life
in me

share my life among you
pass it around
everyone eat of me
together

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i am the vine
you are the branches
unless you live in the vine
   you will die

those who live in me
   bear fruit
and my Father prunes the branches
   so they will be even more fruitful

branches cannot bear fruit apart from the vine ..
live in me
i will live in you
you will bear fruit
..
apart from me you can accomplish nothing ..
my Father is honoured by your fruit
   by showing yourselves to be my disciples

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food
to be eaten
to give life
life from the vine
to bear fruit
..

God is not an object to be eaten
   God is life itself
God is the life that is the source of all life
in God is life
all life is in God

eat God
drink God
   for life

live on God

live in God

God lives in you
and you in God

God is here
eat God
let God flow through you
nourish you
give you life

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whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup together
let it be a testimony to my death
out of which you live

live

live in me

eat me
   together
eat together with me

use my body and blood as food for your souls
share it among yourselves
share me
make me your food
your daily bread

live on me
apart from me you have no life

live !

eat and live

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i am the bread of God which came from heaven to give life to the world

i am the bread of life

i tell you the truth
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood
you have
no life
in you

my flesh is food indeed
and my blood drink
anyone that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me
and i in them

anyone who feeds on me will live

i am real bread from heaven
anyone that eats this bread will live for ever

eat
be nourished by me
find your life in me

i am the life

John chapter 6