THE LORD'S TABLE IS YOUR DAILY BREAD

Christ is everything and Christ is life without addition or subtraction. This was the gospel of Jesus, John and Paul and also the Church Fathers. It’s our personal gospel.
 
LORD’S TABLE
 
If ever there was an acted-out parable of the reality that is the incarnation it is what Catholics call the mass and we call the Lord’s Table. But Christ does not become the bread and wine. He becomes you.
 
We need to understand, that the incarnation is what we live in from day to day in ordinary life – which can no longer be called ordinary, when we are the expression of God. This should not be seen as something new. Jesus said we would not be orphans because He by the Spirit would be in us and with us. Jesus is closer to you than any human being.
 
The Lord’s Table is not an addition to our life. It’s not a peripheral item in our Christianity. IT IS OUR LIFE and the sign that we are His life expressed as ourselves and the church. Jesus has made us one with God as sons. In this union we do not lose ourselves. We find ourselves.
 
Should we live from the law plus the Lord’s Table, the former largely negates the latter. Law-living suffocates Christ our life. Jesus put it bluntly. He said those who eat me will live because of me. Eat the law and we become at best a bore and at worst a form of abuse.
 
A STATE OF BEING ONE
 
Fundamentalism is different to the Gospel of the Kingdom. Fundamentalism is a gospel of words and the Gospel of Jesus, Paul and John is THE WORD. It’s the word made flesh – God expressed as Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus of Nazareth by the Spirit is expressed as you.
 
ONE SBSTANCE WITH GOD
 
‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.  In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.  The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it’ JOHN 1.1-5.
 
Christ is our life as Paul wrote and Jesus is the way, the truth and the life as He declared Himself. Paul’s ‘Christ your life’ – an expansion on Christ in you is infinite in scope. He is our life by way of atonement and our life as regards lived righteousness, commonly called the fruits of the Spirit.
 
RIGHT WAY UP
 
The fruits of the spirit are not things you do to please God as the legalist would say. The fruits are the expression of Christ as you.
 
FRUITS ARE RESULTS
 
The fruits are not New Testament ‘laws’. They are the expression of Christ as us and the evidence that Christ’s life is our life. Thus, in Christ we are holy as God is holy and we are us as unique individuals alive in the spirit of sonship.
 
THE NON-‘LETTER THAT KILLS’ LIFE
 
The most important thing is that Christ is our life AS LIFE. But this life is no abstraction. It’s the trinity in us. Jesus came to give us life without limit and He has. He is our life infusing us with that infinite life that is God and that only God can give. The life of God is personal, communal, dynamic and spirit. It liberates from non-being and sin.
 
The incarnation has great implications for our comfort in God in our everyday life and for the sacredness of everyday life. Not in a religious sense – but in the agency that we have as sons of God in imparting God’s spirit and life to all we do. There is no sacred and secular in God – Just life to the full. There are no compartments in trinitarian life and there is none in ours – unless we make them as a religiosity.
 
THINGS THAT MAKE NO DIFFERENCE
 
We can make religion out of compartments and externalities and be bereft of spirit and life. Religiosities have no power to make us kind and gracious. But with Christ as our life all our externalities become alive with the spirit and life flowing through us from the life-hub of the universe.
 
ONE SUBSTANCE
 
We are called sons/daughters of God because we are. Our title has been established by the cross and the Reconciliation that is ours on account of Christ.  It is because of Jesus that we are one substance with God and God is one substance with us. We are not deities. But we are sons and not religious slaves or workers even when we work.
 
Baxster Kruger puts it this way, “In the person of Jesus Christ, the life of the triune God is united with the human race and with all creation. In Jesus the impossible has happened, humanity has been adopted, and creation has been lifted up into the trinitarian life of God. This vision of Jesus Christ is the gospel to be proclaimed, and it is the starting point of proper Christian thought–the non-negotiable truth of all truths.” You and we have been made one with God.
This kind of oneness is the communion that is the trinity.  Perichoresis  "Allows the individuality of the persons to be maintained, while insisting that each person shares in the life of the other two. An image often used to express this idea is that of a 'community of being,' in which each person, while maintaining its distinctive identity, penetrates the others and is penetrated by them.” This is to say we are one with God, yet fully revealed as ourselves.
Your being and the being of God have been made one. But not in a way that your identity is smothered and you are nullified as a person. Exactly the opposite. In oneness with God you are revealed and nurtured as who you are. A unique, son/daughter of God who lives as an agent of new creation life.
 
COME TO THE TABLE
 
Christ has come in our flesh. Jesus has joined you and all who believe to the trinity and joined the trinity to you and all who believe. Actually He has joined all who don’t believe to God – but to participate we must heed Jesus’ invitation to come to Him to have life.
Torrance locates θέωσις [theosis] in his doctrine of Christ and the atonement rather than in sanctification. Habets brings out this centeredness of θέωσις in Torrance in his book. He argues throughout that Torrance’s doctrine of θέωσις [one substance] “illuminates his incarnational view of the atonement.” (1)
MULTIPLIED IN YOU
It does. It is actually an explication of the truth expressed in John’s Gospel – that the kingdom began when the Son of God came among us as Jesus of Nazareth and multiplies when the Christ of God is multiplied in George, Jill, Ingrid and Percival – and the church.
SEPARATIONISM IS HERESY
The importance of oneness as our inheritance in God cannot be over-emphasised. It is not the product of sanctification and jumping through hoops. It is the treasure in the field and the pearl of great price that is already ours. It’s true that oneness is the cause of sanctification and deep Godliness. But it does not produce religion. It multiplies sons of God.
(1) Radcliff, Jason Robert. Thomas F. Torrance and the Church Fathers: A Reformed, Evangelical, and Ecumenical Reconstruction of the Patristic Tradition . Pickwick Publications, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition.