Title: Sharing memories together
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The Lord's Supper and worship are very important in the mission of the church as a community of faith. Most Korean Protestant churches do not seem to fully understand the importance of the sacrament service. The Eucharist is a liturgy in which the mystery of transcendental grace is present through material media. Therefore, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper can be understood as a means of grace and as a visible word.
Traditionally, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper is a recurring religious ceremony that commemorates the body and blood of Jesus Christ. According to the biblical book of 1 Corinthians (11:23-25), the rite of the Lord's Supper, derived from the Last Supper with the disciples, is a ceremony that recreates the reminiscence of Jesus Christ. The thing to remember here is the event of Jesus Christ. This is a 'dangerous flashback'. Because it is a liturgy that recalls and remembers the event of Jesus' crucifixion and repeatedly remembers his resurrection. The act as a community to remember the political rebels who challenged the Roman political power that ruled Palestine at that time as the Lord is repeated. It is also a ceremonial act of remembrance to honor a religious heretic who has been cursed for blasphemy by Judaism, the dominant religion religiously. The proclamation of the gospel is to testify that this is the Messiah who saves the world.
One of the events of the last Passion Week is the story of a woman in the text we read today (Matthew 26:6-13). The Lord praises the woman who poured expensive perfume on her feet and wiped them with her hair. Where My Gospel is proclaimed, I declare that this woman's event will also be remembered and handed down over and over again. The woman's actions were an objectionable event in the eyes of the disciples at the time. But the Lord praised this woman and was willing to receive love and respect for you. This woman's act was a public act of confessing Jesus as the 'Anointed One'. This was an act of confession that 'Jesus is the Christ'.
As we celebrate the sacrament today, we want to connect the meaning of 'in remembrance of me' and Saegil Church in a religious way. The sense of solidarity and communal belonging of a faith community is that it is a community that shares the same memories. It is based on the common memory of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In other words, the church is anchored in the repeated recall of historical memories shared through worship. It is the church that builds the foundation of the community through a shared experience, a shared memory of this shared experience, and a historical repetition of this memory.
The problem is that you should remember what to remember and not remember what you shouldn't. But the historic church has lost the liberating spirituality that Jesus bestowed upon us by losing its dangerous recollection of Christ. We have lost our hope and the power of salvation to restore justice, peace, and all things anew. The Lord asked us to remember the incident of a woman, but the church has forgotten this request. So it was impossible to recall specifically who this woman was.
The church is a community of remembrance that has been woven through the devotion and faith of powerless people, slender women, and those who risked their lives to remember and transmit Jesus as the Christ. The 'dangerous recall', which is the core of the gospel of Jesus Christ, cannot be brought down through the recollection of the domination of the church authority and the memory of the monopolistic power.
The church is not a community based on race, language, or kinship, but a community based on a specific historical understanding centered on a specific person, Jesus Christ. It is based on historically repeating the view of the confessional historical understanding of an individual who is the Son of God, that Jesus is the Christ.
What are the memories that the Saegil community should share, connected to the perilous recollection of Jesus as we participate in this sacramental service? It should be a reminiscence that is linked to the memory tradition of Jesus, as the confession of faith we will engrave reveals.
What should be the ideological and content system of faith that is formed from the historical repetition of our worship and practice? It should be to restore and revive the hidden memories that have been lost even though they should be remembered in the tradition of the church. It is, first, a recollection of the biblical people-oriented choice. Second, of the two traditions of the Bible, it must be a memory of a participatory and consensual tradition based on the covenant tradition. Third, it must be a memory of the tradition of charismatic service against the politicization of power in the church.
The memory that Saegil Community should share while participating in the Eucharist service is the path of faith pilgrimage to historically recreate the memory of the original church of Jesus Christ that our community sought in today's Korean church for the past 9 years.
Now, as a dining community that shares the body and blood of the Lord, let's follow the Lord's command to 'remember me' and look forward to the following hopes of the future.
From a served church to a serving church, from a professional clergy-centered church to a communal laity-centered church, from a church bound by institutions and legalism to a church of grace and freedom, from a closed church to an open church, from a building-up church In order to move forward as a giving church, we would like to recreate historically here today, while historically remembering and recalling the practical actions of Jesus Christ, which he exemplified in person. This is the mystery of the Eucharist service.