Once, while discussing this matter of increasing the congregational participation in the service, the staff at Circle Church realized that we had never employed the sense of smell. We laughed about it and said it would be pretty tough to pull off.
The outworking of that idea came the Sunday morning we praised God that He is Life. In the kitchens of the barroom of the Union Hall, fresh baked bread had been prepared prior to the service. At 9:30, following the prelude, the staff came to the platform and broke the loaves before the congregation. As the yeasty aroma lingered in the hall, these words were read:
As the smell of bread is to a hungry man,
so is Christ to the searching soul.
Today we are praising God
that He is the Bread of Life.
Later, that same bread was tasted during communion.
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