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Sending The Juice First
Contributed by Austin W. Duncan on Apr 17, 2026 (message contributor)
My dad was on the communion team at our church growing up. We passed the elements down the pews, one plate at a time. The team would bring them to the end of each row and people would pass them along.
Well, one Sunday my dad accidentally sent the juice down the pew first.
So the people grabbed the cup. And then the bread plate came. And I got to watch, in what I can only imagine was some combination of horror and humor for him, as each person mentally worked through how to hold a full cup in one hand, receive the bread plate in the other, finagle a finger into the bread, get enough grip to actually take a piece, and then pass the plate along to the next person.
Every time I'm somewhere that passes the elements, that image comes racing back into my mind. Thankful when they get the order right.
But beyond logistics, Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11 actually does specify the order. The bread comes first. Then the cup. Because the sequence tells the story. The body broken, then the blood poured out. The order isn't incidental. It's the gospel in the right sequence.
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