Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Well, hey, friends, welcome to the weekday podcast. My name is Bobby McGraw. Super grateful you're here. All week long, we're going to string these episodes together. So if you're able to join us every single weekday this week as we talk about stuff that really matters and hopefully offers encouragement into the day. Today, we're talking about dinner on autopilot. Now, here's my quick question for today. What did you have for dinner last Monday?
[00:00:22] Now, most of us can't answer that, and it's not because it was a bad meal, but it was just a meal. We ate it standing at the counter. Or maybe you were in the car, or maybe while half watching something on a screen. What happens over time is those meals blur together. We eat tens of thousands of them in our lifetime, but only a handful of us stay with us. Well, every once in a while, though, there's a meal that's different. It's the dinner where someone slid a ring across the table. It's the last meal before a big move. It's the meal after a funeral when everyone finally laughed. Those meals don't blur because they meant something. Well, Jesus knew that. So in the last night before the cross, he didn't give his followers a lecture. He gave them a meal on purpose. First Corinthians 11, verses 23 and 24 says, For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you. That the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, this is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Now, Paul wrote that to a church in Corinth that had put this meal on autopilot. Actually, it was worse than autopilot. When they gathered, the wealthy ate first and they ate well. And the poor showed up to an empty table.
[00:01:37] They were taking a meal that cost God everything. And somehow, even though it cost God everything, it cost them nothing at all. Now, now it's easy to shake our heads at them. But I don't think Paul was only diagnosing them. He was also diagnosing us.
[00:01:52] Here's how autopilot works. Nobody decides to stop caring. They don't. You just take the bread and the cup the way that you've taken it a hundred times before. Your mind drifts to lunch plans. The moment passes. And five years down the road, you realize the most meaningful meal in history has become one more thing you do on a Sunday.
[00:02:13] Notice how Paul pushes back. He said, I received from the Lord that which also I've delivered to you. This is handoff language. This isn't a tradition somebody made up along the way. It's one of the earliest things the Church ever wrote down. Passed from the hand to the next hand, from Jesus to Paul to Corinth, all the way down to us.
[00:02:33] When you look at the phrase that's tucked in the middle, this is my body, which is for you. You. For you. Not for religious professionals, not for the people who have it all together. So here's the line I want you to think about on today's episode. What cost him everything should never cost us nothing. What cost him everything should never cost us nothing. Now, it doesn't mean that you have to work up some big emotion every single time that you take communion, but it does mean you stop letting it be ordinary. You slow down. You remember that the bread and the cup point to the body that was broken and the blood that was poured out on purpose for you.
[00:03:11] So here's a step for today.
[00:03:13] Pick one meal, just one, and eat it without your phone. Look around the table. Notice who's there. Say thank you out loud to God and to the people across from you. Let one ordinary meal remind you that meals can mean something.
[00:03:27] Because if an ordinary dinner can matter that much, imagine what happens when you stop taking his table on autopilot. What cost him everything should never cost us nothing.
[00:03:38] Well, I hope that encourages you today. Join us back tomorrow. That feeling of walking into a room and wondering how you got in and what Jesus has to say about it, that's where we're going tomorrow. Have a great day.
