The Incarnation as Mission

The scripture reading comes from Philippians chapter 2.

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Please follow along on the screen, the bulletin, or your own Bible.

Starting in verse 4, we read,

Let each of you look not only to his own interest, but also to the interest of others.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God of things to be grasped,

but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of man.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,

even death on the cross.

Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

so that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

To the glory of God the Father, this is the word of God.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you, Sherman.

If you are new here today, a really warm and hearty welcome to you.

My name is Jeremy.

I'm also one of the staff leaders here.

And it's so great to be celebrating and thinking through the season of Advent with you.

So if it's your first time, so glad that you are celebrating Advent with us.

We're going through a preaching series on Advent,

specifically called the Incarnation, God Becoming Man.

And today I want to begin this sermon with a very closely related topic to the birth of baby Jesus.

And that's World War II.

World War II.

Does anyone know here what the HBO series called Band of Brothers?

Anyone watch it?

I see some nods.

That's good.

You guys are the privileged, the blessed.

If you haven't, go Google it later.

It is a phenomenal 10-part miniseries.

It's like a historical drama, but it's about war, obviously, World War II.

Steven Spielberg, all those names.

Go check it out afterwards.

But why do I bring that up?

Basically, what Band of Brothers is about is about the 101st Airborne Division.

And that's a division of the U.S. Army.

Now, you've all heard of probably D-Day, right, in World War II.

D-Day is when the Allied Army kind of, you know, embarked on the greatest invasion rescue mission in history.

They crossed the English Channel, landed in the beach of Normandy to retake Europe from Nazi Germany and Hitler.

But what's maybe a little less known is that in the days and weeks leading up to D-Day,

Allied planes actually flew over France and parachuted the 101st Airborne Division under the cover of night,

behind enemy lines into France.

And the mission of the 101st was, I guess, simple but also complicated.

They needed to take over key cities and kind of checkpoints and roads.

And so that when that massive army came, when the tanks and the troops and the trucks came over the English Channel,

they actually would be able to move inland quickly and strike and move forward.

And so the 101st was small, but their mission was absolutely crucial to the war effort.

Absolutely crucial.

But for those of you guys who've watched Band of Brothers or maybe have read about World War II,

you would know that it was brutal.

These young men parachuted into chaos, bloodshed, violence, destruction.

Death was all around these young men.

But they pressed forward.

They persevered for the mission.

The mission to defeat Nazi Germany and to liberate Europe from Hitler's iron grip.

And so, friends, I believe, you know, as I've been thinking about this,

this really can be a picture of Advent.

The 101st coming in to France behind enemy lines.

It's a picture of God coming to us.

It's an analogy of Jesus Christ, God becoming flesh.

You see, Advent is all about the incarnation.

That's why we've named our series that way.

It's about God becoming flesh in the man, Jesus Christ.

And there are many different ways we can think about the incarnation.

A couple weeks ago, Chris talked about how the incarnation is kind of like God moving into our neighborhood

and dwelling with us.

Last week, Oscar talked about a lot of things.

But one thing that really struck me was it was about God identifying with us.

That we know that God, through Jesus, knows exactly what we're going through.

He understands us.

And today, we're going to think about the incarnation as God's mission.

A mission to win a bloody, brutal war.

Also a war that you and I are part of every single day.

You see, God's word tells us that we are in the midst of a cosmic battle between good and evil.

Between right and wrong.

And the effects of this war are felt everywhere.

They're felt in our city, our society, throughout the world.

But at its core, this cosmic battle is fought within our hearts.

You see, God created each of us to be his children.

His children to love him.

To worship him.

To get everything we need from him.

Because God is God.

And he provides all things that are good.

He created us to love one another.

To support one another.

So that no one would feel lonely or broken or hurt.

But we were tempted, scripture says, we were tempted by the lie that God just isn't enough.

That we needed to be the center of the universe.

And so the war began.

We rebelled against our creator.

We rebelled against God.

And therefore, all that's evil and broken in this world was an overflow of that rebellion.

From the genocides of our history.

To the environmental degradation and destruction.

All the way to that maybe daily lingering feeling you have that what I have just isn't enough.

I need a little more.

I'm not quite happy.

I need a little bit more.

I need to run a little harder.

I need to earn a little more.

All of this, scripture says, God says it's because that we have, we're trying to grasp onto all these things that we think will make us happy.

Money, sex, power, control, so on and so forth.

You name it.

But God knows.

God knows that only he can satisfy our deepest needs.

Yet we continue to fight against him.

We continue to run away from him.

And so if God wanted to win this war against evil.

Against the rebellion.

You know, he could have done it in a lot of ways, right?

He could have gone the nuclear option.

And just wiped everything out.

Wiped us all out.

Snapped his fingers.

Erased us and just started again from scratch.

He's God.

He's the creator, right?

You know, maybe he could have reprogrammed us with a new operating system that just makes us obedient robots or something.

I don't know.

But what we do know is when we look at God's word, what he's revealed of us, what he's told to us, is that he's done something very different.

Take a look at Colossians 1 with me.

It says,

See, God is in the business of reconciliation.

He wants to win us back.

He wants to win us out.

He wants to win us back.

He wants us to bring, to adopt us back.

Orphans who have run away.

So that we can worship him.

We can enjoy his love forever.

That we can actually be content and happy.

That we can see that the universe was actually designed for God to be the center.

Not you and me.

So when we take a look at today's passage that Sherman read to us, when we look at incarnation through this lens of mission, this mission into this bloody, brutal war,

we see some profound truths about the incarnation, I believe.

And this is our big idea that I want to start us with.

Is that the incarnation shows us that the greatest rescue mission in the history of the world,

this mission that Jesus is on to reconcile us,

this greatest mission was actually accomplished in the most humble, the most surprising of ways.

Let's take a look at the passage.

Feel free to walk through it with me in your bulletin, your Bible.

It will be on the screen as well.

Philippians 2 verse 6 says this,

Philippians 2:6

Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God,

he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.

You see, Jesus was divine.

Jesus was God.

And equality with God meant that God the Father, God the Son, Jesus,

they lived in perfect harmony all through eternity, before even time existed.

They lived in this state of perfect love and harmony.

That might be a little hard for us to wrap our heads around,

but maybe take a moment and think about the happiest time in your life,

the happiest time that you spent with your loved ones.

You know, maybe it was a beautiful beach vacation that you spent with your family.

Maybe it was going to a destination wedding to celebrate someone that,

you know, you love so dearly and celebrate their special day.

Maybe it was when you were a kid around Christmas time,

and you were opening presents and just feeling the warmth and love of your family.

The best of times.

Now imagine being in that state of perfect bliss

and then choosing to give it all up just like that.

That's kind of like what Jesus did,

except that what Jesus had was infinitely better.

because instead of just our friends and family,

he had equality with God.

He had absolute contentment.

He had the ultimate comfort, privilege, and power.

He had equality with God.

And yet he did not count that something to be grasped.

This idea of grasping in this passage

can also mean that he didn't hold on to it

like something he can use for his own advantage.

He didn't think it was something that he needed to exploit

for his own benefit.

And so this is the first thing that we see about the incarnation

that's so humbly surprising.

It meant choosing to forego personal privilege,

to forego personal rights and comfort and pleasure.

It meant Jesus leaving behind selfish gain.

And he had every right to hold on to it, right?

He was God.

He was equal with God.

But he chose not to.

You know, I love food.

And, you know, when I find it hard even to share food sometimes.

You know, when that amazing, delicious, medium-rare steak and frites

come to my table, I'll be very honest,

I find it hard to cut a piece and let, you know,

my wife or my friend share it.

Let alone trading that steak for a bowl of brown rice.

You know?

And that's just such a small thing that I even struggle with.

And I think some of us do, you know?

Joey doesn't share food, right?

We find it hard.

We find it hard.

But look at Jesus.

For the sake of the mission,

he freely chose to let go of even the privilege of equality with God.

Isn't that amazing?

The next thing we see about the incarnation

is that it meant choosing to be a servant.

Jesus chose to be a servant.

Verse 7, Jesus emptied himself by taking the form of a servant.

And that word servant there actually means slave.

The one who has relinquished all rights

has sold himself to the servitude of others,

to put others' needs before him.

It would have been incredible enough, right,

if Jesus just gave up his privilege of equality with God

and became a nice middle-class person,

live in a nice four or five hundred square foot flat,

decent middle-class income.

We would have been pretty surprised by that already, right?

God becoming middle-class?

But no.

God says his mission called him to become a servant,

a slave, not only one who gave up privilege,

but actively placed his well-being

to serve those in need,

to serve others before his own need.

Jesus himself declared, right,

I came not to be served, but to serve.

You know, that wonderful, happy place

that you were thinking about before

with your loved ones?

Now imagine choosing to leave that bliss,

not just to leave it,

but, you know, to become a street cleaner,

a rubbish collector

in the slums of a developing country.

Just imagine that for that second,

if that was real.

Like, can we even fathom

the heights from which Jesus came

and the depths to which he went?

All for the sake of the mission.

You know, I know this passage,

I think we've,

many of us have heard this

Philippians passage so often,

and I admit,

I can kind of just read it

and be like, yeah, yeah,

Jesus humbled himself.

That's great.

And it's so easy, I think,

for me to overlook

and for us to forget

just how incredibly mind-blowing that is.

You know, I heard once, you know,

someone talking about the incarnation

that it's not so much like

the richest, most powerful man in the world,

the woman in the world

becoming the lowliest slave.

That would be amazing, right?

But it's not even quite that.

It's like the richest,

most powerful person in world,

in history,

becoming an ant,

becoming a bug,

a little bug,

so that he could tell

all the other little ants

about how much he loved them,

to communicate with them,

to know about them,

to relate to them.

Can our feeble minds

even comprehend

the lengths that Jesus went to

to become a man?

And I think no,

but we can sure try.

And we can sure try to be in awe

of this incredible reality

that in the incarnation,

Jesus chose to become a servant,

a slave,

for the sake of the mission.

The third thing we see

about incarnation

is that it meant

choosing to engage

with humanity.

And this is choosing

to engage in humanity

in its complete fullness.

Not just the good,

but the bad

and the ugly.

Jesus chose to engage

in the very ordinariness

of life,

the most mundane things,

and even all the darkness

and brokenness.

Verses 7 and 8

says,

Jesus was born

in the likeness of men

and being found

in human form,

he humbled himself

by becoming obedient

to the point of death.

Church,

what strikes me

about the Christmas story,

you know,

about Jesus becoming human

is in one way

it's just how ordinary

and plain it was.

This greatest rescue mission

in the history of humanity

didn't come

with a muscle-clad warrior

with his machine gun

on an Apache helicopter,

guns blazing,

to take over

and to win.

It began

with a baby,

an infant,

born in a place

where the animals lived.

And it's easy for us

to think about

baby Jesus

as a passive character,

right?

Because none of us

know a baby

who actually chose

to be born

where they are

and to be born

to the parents

that they were born to.

But I think Jesus

is the one exception.

Jesus,

equal to God,

chose to be born

as a baby,

chose to be born

in Bethlehem

2,000 years ago.

He chose to be born

in such humble,

impoverished circumstances.

Our Savior,

our God,

knows what it's like

to pass through the womb

into the cold air,

into the wonder

and scariness

of this world.

Isn't that astounding?

That our God knows that?

That he's experienced that?

What also strikes me

about the whole incarnation story

is that it's really

how easy it is

to kind of sanitize it,

to kind of make it

just suitable

for kids' rating

or a children's song

or a Christmas card.

A sweet baby Jesus

lying in a manger

with cuddly animals

around him.

Shepherds,

starry night,

wise men with the gifts.

Now all those things

may be true,

but there's so much

more to it.

Just like the 101st Airborne

dropping into hellfire

behind enemy lines,

the mission of incarnation

meant that Jesus

chose to be born

into a life of poverty,

of persecution,

of death.

Jesus chose to engage

with all of that

willingly.

You know,

Jesus experienced trauma

and danger

from day one.

And he was literally

born into a place

for farm animals,

basically.

He was literally born

into a circumstance

of poverty.

And almost as soon

as he was born,

King Herod,

the king of Israel

at that time,

he made a decree

in order to murder

all the boys

under two

in Bethlehem

and in the area

because he was afraid

of this king

that he heard of.

He wanted to wipe them out.

So all these baby boys

are being killed

around Jesus

in Bethlehem.

And so Jesus

and his family

had to flee to Egypt.

And so Jesus

now knows

what it's like

to be a refugee

as a child.

Jesus was born

into a land

that where his people

were being subjugated

by a foreign

oppressive power,

by the Romans.

Imagine choosing

to be born

into oppression

like that.

And not to mention,

the story goes on

that Jesus ultimately

experienced death

himself,

something that we'll all

face sooner or later.

And so there's nothing

pretty about Christmas

in many ways.

It was brutal.

It was hard.

It was deadly.

And Jesus chose

to engage

with every aspect

of that.

He chooses

to go into the mess.

Jesus chooses

to experience

the greatest evils

of humanity.

He chooses

to go from

the best

possible circumstance

to perhaps

the worst.

All for the sake

of this mission.

Now why would

he do that?

Why on earth,

why in creation

would motivate him

to do that?

Scripture couldn't

be clearer,

I think,

than in John 3.

I love that

Ellen picked that

in the song

earlier today

when we talked

about Emmanuel

coming to us.

Because in John 3

it says,

God the Father

loved the world

so much.

He loved you

and me

so much

that he came

himself

to save us.

That we would

not perish.

He came himself

to save us.

The incarnation

wasn't just a mission.

It was a mission

of love,

fueled by love,

by the creator

for his creation.

By the father

chasing after

his children

who had run away.

And so that's

our big idea.

That this mission

of love

was accomplished

in this amazing way.

God coming to us,

running after us.

And when we appreciate

the incarnation

as God's mission

of reconciliation.

That's really

one way to think

about the incarnation.

I hope we can

appreciate

the lengths

to which God

went to save us.

Just how much

he loves us.

But church,

this isn't just

a feel-good story

about God's love

and then,

you know,

the end.

The mission

isn't quite over yet.

So much was accomplished

through the incarnation,

but there's more.

The incarnation

was key to God's mission

but he doesn't just

save us

so that we can

keep God's love

to ourselves.

We,

his people,

God says,

are to continue

that mission.

Remember,

today's passage

actually began

with this sentence,

let each of you

look not to

his own interests

but the interests

of others.

The very heartbeat

of God's mission

is to continue

loving others,

to continue

serving others

just like Jesus did.

So when we think

about the incarnation,

it should also be

our motivation.

It should also be

the pattern

and the power

for continuing

on this mission

to reach everyone

who's far from God.

And this was where

I want this

to land

for us.

For us not to just

look in wonder

and awe

at the incarnation

but to see

what does that

have to do

with me

in 21st century

Hong Kong.

We still have

a calling

to help others

reconcile

with their creator.

There's so many

people in this city,

in this world,

even maybe around us

right now,

who need to experience

God's love.

And when we see

what God has done

for us

through the incarnation,

how Jesus left

that place of comfort

to come into

this brutal world,

I think the question

we have to ask

ourselves is,

how willing

am I,

are you,

to leave my place

of privilege

for the mission?

How willing

am I to step

out of my comfort zone

to reach somebody?

How willing

am I to use

my own experience

of suffering

and hurt

to comfort another?

I think ultimately

the question

we are posed with

is,

have I truly

experienced

God's love

and meditated

on it

and basked

in it

in a way

that helps me

to see

how much

God loves others,

to help me

to relate

to God's heart,

his heartbeat,

his love

for the lost,

for the broken,

for the downtrodden?

Have I experienced

God in that way?

God's love

because there may be,

I'm sure there may be

some pretty unlovable

people in your life.

Maybe a colleague

or boss

or subordinate

who just grates

on you

and just frustrates you

or people

who are just

so different

from you

in your life.

Different language,

socioeconomic status,

interests,

whatever.

And maybe

you've just worked

so hard

to get to where

you are today

sitting in this seat

and you've labored

hard

and you just want

to enjoy

the comforts

of middle,

upper middle class,

upper class life,

whatever,

whatever you identify

with.

Those things

may be true

but the incarnation

speaks into

every one

of those realities

because we weren't

just unlovable

to God.

We were his enemies.

enemies.

We were rebelling

against him

and yet he chose

to love us.

And can you imagine

how different we are

to the God

of the universe

and yet he came

to relate

with us

to become

one of us.

And you remember

how rich

and comfortable

Jesus was

before he chose

to give it all up?

The incarnation

is our motivation

and our pattern

for mission

in every circumstance.

The pastor

and theologian

Tim Keller,

some of you

might know him,

he once told a story

about one of his

seminary students.

His name was Mark.

Now Mark

and his wife Heather

told Tim one day,

we're going to move,

we decided

we were going to move

to Sandtown.

And Sandtown

was one of the most

dangerous neighborhoods

in the city of Baltimore

in the US.

And this was back

in the 80s

and it had been decades

since any white people

had lived in Sandtown.

Racial division

was at its peak

between

African Americans

and Caucasians.

But they decided

to move into Sandtown

and for the first

couple years

it was pretty perilous.

Mark was interviewed

by a local reporter

and he said

the police thought

I was a drug dealer

and the drug dealers

thought I was

a police officer

so for a while there

I didn't know

who was going to

shoot us first.

That's how it was.

But Mark and Heather

didn't go to Sandtown

because the rent

was cheap

though it was.

They moved

because they loved

Jesus.

They loved his mission.

They knew that Jesus

loved the people

of Sandtown.

And so over the years

they were able to work

with other community leaders

to establish a church

and all these ministries

that began to transform

this broken place

of Sandtown.

Isn't that such

a beautiful picture

of incarnation

in our world?

Of course

they didn't incarnate

they didn't become God

or become Jesus

in Sandtown

but they reflected

this story

of incarnation

by going

into Sandtown.

Two followers

two followers

of Jesus

who chose

to live

a comfortable

wonderful life

by going into

a place

of deep brokenness

and danger

so that people

who were so different

from them

could experience

the love of God.

Now I'm not saying

that every single

one of us here

needs to move

to the equivalent

of Sandtown.

I'm not saying that.

but the very serious

question I believe

God is asking us

is are you even willing?

Would you even consider it?

Are you even willing

to consider something

like that

for the sake

of the mission?

Are you willing

to leave everything

behind for me

for Jesus

for the sake

of the mission?

some of us here

are being called

to a Sandtown

and you know it.

Maybe you're even

thinking about it.

For others

God may be asking you

to live out

the incarnation story

in some other way.

Maybe it's in your

workplace.

Maybe it's in

your neighborhood

in your building

in your community.

Maybe it's even

in your own home.

How much

do you really

step out

to engage

and identify

in difficult situations?

Maybe with that

difficult colleague.

Maybe just with

your security guard

at home.

How much do you

live out the incarnation

in those situations?

And I think

for some of us

the most incarnational

thing we could do

right now

is actually

to spend

to move towards

our own families

to spend

quality time

with them.

To really get

to know a spouse

or a child

so that they

can get to know

Jesus.

You know the

incarnation was

anything but easy.

Those are hard

things to do.

Moving out of

our comfort zones

is hard.

The incarnation

was like moving

into a war zone.

So if you feel

overwhelmed

by the prospect

of going to a

Sandtown

or really

just doing

anything

in mission

that is

just makes you

feel uncomfortable

and scared

that's okay.

Because the

amazing thing

about our passage

today is that

it actually

shows us

the power

to overcome

that.

Our Lord Jesus

began with

equality with God.

He knew

who he was.

He had the deepest

most secure love

between himself

and God the

Father.

And from that

place he emptied

himself to become

a human servant.

But then take a

look at verse 8.

Jesus humbled

himself by

becoming obedient

to the point

of death.

Even death

on a cross.

Therefore

God has highly

exalted him

bestowed on him

the name that is

above every name

so that at the

name of Jesus

every knee should

bow in heaven

and on earth

and under the earth

and every tongue

confess that

Jesus Christ

is Lord

to the glory

of God the

Father.

Do you see

how the pattern

of incarnation

gives us

power

and confidence

to pursue

the mission?

See Jesus'

past

was absolutely

secure.

He had

everything he

needed

in the love

of the Father.

But Jesus'

future

was also

secure.

It was

through his

incarnation

that he

was able

to conquer

death.

That he

was able

to resurrect

to bring

honor

and glory

and worship

to God.

I think

this is so

beautifully

summarized

in John 13.

It says this,

Jesus,

knowing that

the Father

had given

all things

into his

hands,

that he

had come

from God

and was

going back

to God,

he then

rose from

supper.

You know

what he did

after that?

He knelt

down and

he washed

every one

of his

disciples'

feet.

Profound

act of

servanthood

that the

master would

kneel and

wash his

disciples'

feet.

This

astounding

sign of

servanthood.

Friends,

obviously,

we're not

Jesus.

But if you

are a follower

of Jesus,

you can have

just as much

assurance

about your

past

and your

future.

Because God

knows everything

you've done

in your

past.

He knows

every good,

bad,

and ugly

thing you've

done.

He knows

all the

things you

failed to

do.

And yet,

he loves

you.

He came

to you

with no

strings

attached.

But it's

not that

only.

He also

knows your

future if

you're a

follower of

Jesus.

He's prepared

a home

for you.

He's prepared

an inheritance

for you.

He's prepared

riches and

honor in

eternity that

beats anything

you could ever

have in this

lifetime.

And so,

in this

moment,

in this

day,

in 2021,

you have

the freedom

to lay it

all out for

the sake of

the mission.

Because in

the grand

scheme,

we have

nothing to

lose and

everything to

gain for

the mission.

The mission

to love

others, to

love them

radically and

show them how

amazing God

is.

Between our

past and

our present,

secure and

assure, we

have freedom

today.

The

incarnation shows

us that the

greatest rescue

mission in the

history of the

world was

accomplished through

the most humble

of ways.

And so, the

incarnation also

becomes our

motivation, our

pattern for

mission as we

remember how

Jesus did it.

But it's also

our power, our

power to do

something hard and

difficult.

Because it's

through incarnation

that Jesus also

conquered the

evil of this

world, that he

conquered death.

And that's a

victory that all

of us share in,

that all of us

can look forward

to.

Victory over

death, eternal

riches, and

comfort with God.

And as I was

praying and just

preparing for this,

it just hit me that

Hebrews 12, this

verse in Hebrews 12

just sums up

everything, what I've

said so well.

Take a look at it

with me.

It says, let us

run with endurance

the race that is

set before us.

A race that

includes a life of

mission.

Looking to Jesus,

the founder of

our faith, the

one who came to

us, the one who

was God but

humbled himself and

came to us so

that we could have

life.

But also the

perfecter of the

faith, the one who

points us to an

eternal reality where

our lives will be

made perfect.

Who for the joy

that was set before

him endured the

cross, endured

death, disregarding

the shame of all

that, and is now

seated at the right

hand of the throne

of God.

Church, that's my

prayer for us.

That we would live a

life of mission that

is empowered by

looking to Jesus and

looking to the joy

that was set before

him and for all of

us.

We're going to

conclude by going

into time of

communion.

And I think it's

just so apt, so

perfect to do this

because communion

symbolizes having a

meal with Jesus.

That you've now been

welcomed into the

family of God.

You're sitting at the

dining table.

That's a symbol of

family, of fellowship

fellowship in Hebrew

culture.

But I want us to

take a moment and

think about who's not

at the dining table.

Who's not sharing

this communion, this

community with us.

Who do you know who

you would just love to

be sitting in that

empty seat next to you?

You can see their name

on it.

The name tag is there.

The placard is there.

But they're not there

yet.

And I want to invite us

to just take a moment

instead of rushing into

looking, getting the

elements to actually

think about that.

Who in your life, or

maybe it's a people

group, and think about

who is not at the table

with you right now.

Communion is a time for

believers.

And so if you're not a

follower of Jesus today,

I want to invite you.

Why aren't you at the

table yet?

What do you think about

Jesus?

What do you think about

the incarnation, about

this idea that God

loved you so much that

he came to find you?

I'd love to talk to you

more about it.

Or I'd encourage you to

talk to a friend about

it, or whoever brought

you about it.

So I'm going to invite

the stewards to come up.

I want to invite the

band to come up.

And I want to invite

you to just meditate

on that truth and

think about who's

missing from the table

in your life.

And who is God calling

you to go to?

Who might you be able

to invite to our

Christmas service this

Friday and Saturday?

When you're ready, you

can come up, grab the

elements, go back to

your seats, and then

afterwards I'll lead all

of us in taking the

communion elements

together.

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again.

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