JEWISH PASSOVER
Right down to the present, Jews reenact the Passover-event in celebration of their redemption from Egypt . . . In this service, words are connected with ritual, symbol, and gesture. It is a drama, a reenactment of the flight of Israel from the land of Pharaoh. It is not only a past event, but a present reality. For, although the Exodus happened in the past, its power and meaning reach down into history and change the lives of people now as did the original event. Reenactment of the action still has the power to change lives . . . The church has also retained the Old Testament principle that the event being celebrated becomes contemporaneous: Paul referred to the Table as a “participation” in Christ (1 Corinthians 10:16). It is important to understand, though, that the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is not an event which we memorialize. Its power, like that of the Exodus, reaches down through history and becomes…
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