The Reverend Dr. John Killinger, who is an outstanding preacher and distinguished Christian author, shares a prayer that he designed for a Communion Service when he was senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, shares this thought:

"Lord, we thank you for this table, which is more important than any other table in the world, even the table of kings and emperors where lands have been divided and the tables of soldiers and generals where peace has been designed. For here, O Lord, you gather your family in remembrance of a meal centuries ago and visit your people as you did then. We are grateful for daily bread, for the food of our tables, for biscuits and hams and chickens and beans and potatoes, but more grateful for this bread, which in our hearts is your own …