April 15, 2022

As we’re joined together in this new covenant, living life to life in bread and wine divided among ourselves, we move from fragmentation to togetherness. As we share this meal together, wash one another’s feet, and then share Jesus’ body and blood, we are unified in the Spirit just as we’ve been unified to Jesus’ resurrection in our baptisms. Jesus says that people will know we are his disciples by our love, but yard signs and the Beatles and Lin-Manuel Miranda aren’t changing humanity or bringing us to unity in love. In telling the disciples to love one another, Jesus lays out the mission of the church.