Church historian Mark Noll writes:
“The experience that prompted the deepest reflection on the nature of
Christianity in my own life as a Christian was regular celebration of
the Lord’s supper” (52)
John Piper comments:
Pondering and experiencing the presence of God in the Lord’s Supper was a
bridge to the nature of the Christian faith that Noll’s exposure to
world Christianity was making clearer. The Lord’s Supper is a kind of
incarnation — a kind of translation — of divine reality into the
particularities of the physical, cultural, personal, human present. And
so is all of Christianity — first manifest in the incarnation of Christ,
and then in the missionary expanse of the church into one culture after
the other.
From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story (Baker Academic, 2014).
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/mark-noll-s-memoir-world-christianity-historical-thinking-humbling-paradox
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