The Meal Offering Church Life

In Christ

two natures mingled

The human with divine;

The Spirit

thus compounded

Blent oil with flour fine

To form a cake

an offering

First unto God supplied;

Then pieces fed the priesthood;

Thus both were satisfied.

The meal offering church life

That we enjoy today

Is satisfying God with Christ

And nourishing us with Christ for aye.

Like Christ

the church is mingled

With Christ’s humanity

Included in the Spirit

In life essentially.

The content of the church life

Both excellent and fine

Is Spirit-filled and living.

‘Tis God and man combined.

The church

Christ’s reproduction

Meets God’s need corporately

As we express Christ’s essence

His dear humanity

His fragrant resurrection

His living by the cross;

Rejecting honey

leaven

Accounting them but loss.

The taste of salt preserves us;

’Tis salt that we prefer;

The cross is in the Spirit

It’s termination sure.

Here

salt kills all corruption

Preserving what is pure

And brings in resurrection

As we our spirits stir.

The cake of this meal offering

Christ’s human life supplied

Bears resurrection’s fragrance

As frankincense ascribed.

The cross with resurrection

In Christ’s humanity

Within the compound Spirit

Is our reality.

The life we live in spirit

The meetings here display

As we present our offering

And God to man convey.

The atmosphere of feasting

A testimony bears—

God has received His portion

And with us all He shares.

The fullness of the mingling

Where God and man are one

Is worked out in our living

As we enjoy the Son!

The consummate enlargement—

God fully blent with man—

Is still a cake for feasting!

The New Jerusalem!