“Then, taking a cup, He gave thanks and said, ‘Take this and share it among you’” (Luke 22:17).
A pastor in Greensboro, North Carolina, tells this wonderful, true story of a four-year-old niece named Alisha:
One day, while babysitting Alisha and her younger brother, Matt, I had just served them their favorite lunch of apple juice and burritos. As I left the room I heard Alisha begin to “celebrate Communion”–as she so often has witnessed me doing on the altar. It surprised me how well she knew Jesus’ words of institution, but she put a new twist on them. She lifted her cup of apple juice and said: “And Jesus took the cup and blessed it and He thanked God…
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