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The basic structure of worship consists of the Word and Eucharist. However, the Korean church's excessive focus on the Word has led to the decline of the Eucharist, resulting in an imbalance in worship. As worship the center of the Christian life loses its balance, the daily lives of Christians, too, lose their center and become unsettled. Externally, the church is criticized as a group that prioritizes words over deeds, while internally, this issue has become apparent as it faces an era of two million "Canaans."
In this serious situation, the best measure the church can take is to restore the balance in worship that has tilted too far toward the Word. Accordingly, this study asserts that Eucharist should not be regarded merely as an event held a few times a year, but rather as a ritual that forms balanced worship. Furthermore, it seeks ways to extend and invigorate Eucharist beyond the confines of the church into everyday life through the table of Jesus.
To expand Eucharist, first, it is necessary to break away from its altar like character that of commemorates Jesus' death and to transform it into a table that remembers, beyond death, the resurrection. Second, the concept of the community underlying the table of Eucharist must be on expanded. Instead of being confined to the church building, community should be formed in the sense of the family defined by Jesus. Third, not only within the church but also extending into the world, the table of Eucharist should be realized as the tale of Jesus. Just as Jesus' life is made visible at the table of Eucharist, the life of the church and its Christians should be embodied as witnesses of Jesus through His table.
To this end, we must reexamine the table at which Jesus dined with many people during His public ministry and recreate it in our daily lives. Since Jesus instituted table of Eucharist and opened the way to the preeminence of God's kingdom, the method to elevate Christians into beings who worship in balance and act accordingly can only be found through the expanded table of Eucharist.
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