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“Fire is of great use, great help, and even great comfort to us.
Fire can also burn the skin off your bones. Fire destroys houses, levels cities, and is a weapon against enemies. Fire can be dangerous.
This dual potential for fire as a blessing and a threat explains why Hebrews calls God a consuming fire. Hence, we cannot be presumptuous when we come into God's presence.”

This is going to be great.

“Some ask, since the Supper requires such genuine repentance, is it better not to take the Supper as often? Yet this reverses our true priorities. Rather than avoiding the Supper because it requires repentance, we should inculcate a regular posture of repentance so we are always ready to come to the Supper.”

—Harrison Perkins, Take & Eat: Recovering the Regular Celebration of the LORD’s Supper

“GOD’s treatment of Ananias and Sapphira shows that GOD cares that we take every aspect of worship seriously … Although the Supper contains risk as we approach the table, the whole of worship contains that same risk at least in some measure. We cannot escape the risk of coming before the LORD simply by avoiding the Supper. Worship itself entails that risk.”