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Remember: An Election Day Communion Service
Tuesday November 6, 2012 at 7:30pm
Memorial Baptist Church
1634 Paris Rd.
Columbia, Missouri 65201 Get Directions
Why this service?

On November 6, 2012, Election Day, we will exercise our right to
choose.

...Some of us will choose to vote for Barack Obama.
Some of us will choose to vote for Mitt Romney.
Some of us will choose to vote for another candidate.
Some of us will choose not to vote.

During the day of November 6, 2012, we will make different choices
for different reasons, hoping for different results. But that evening
while our nation turns its attention to the outcome of the presidential
election, let’s again choose differently. But this time, let’s do it
together.

Let’s meet at the same table, with the same host, to remember
the same things…

We’ll remember that real power in this world — the power to save,
to transform, to change — ultimately rests not in political parties or
presidents or protests but in the life, the death, and the resurrection
of Jesus.

We’ll remember that, through the Holy Spirit, this power dwells
within otherwise ordinary people who as one body continue the mission of Jesus: preaching good news to the poor, freeing the captives, giving sight to the blind, releasing the oppressed, and proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor (Luke 4:16-21).

We’ll remember that freedom — true freedom — is given by God
and is indeed not free. It comes with a cost and it looks like a cross.

We’ll remember our sin and our need to repent.

We’ll remember that the only Christian nation in this world is the
Church, a holy nation that crosses all human-made boundaries and
borders.

We’ll remember that our passions are best placed within the passion
of Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set
before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down
at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2).

We’ll remember that we do not conform to the patterns of this world,
but we are transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2).

We’ll remember that God’s strength is made perfect in weakness.

And we’ll re-member the body of Christ as the body of Christ,
confessing the ways in which partisan politics has separated us
from one another and from God.

On Tuesday evening, November 6, make a choice to remember.

Let’s meet at the Lord’s Table. Let’s remember together.
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