Everyone knows the feeling. You prop up your feet in order to enjoy an hour of your favourite show or get lost in a good book. As you step down and attempt to stand, that numb tingly feeling shoots up from where your right foot used to be because you swear if you weren’t looking at it that your foot has now disappeared. Your foot has fallen asleep.

This past week in our Port City gathering we unpacked Jesus' institution of the Lord’s Supper (in Luke 22:14-23).  It’s in this farewell discourse to his disciples that Jesus addresses the concept of the new covenant.  In doing so, Jesus is pulling together hundreds of years of biblical history and helping his disciples to see how he himself is the fulfilment of God’s plan since before the creation of the world.  The book of Hebrews actually refers to Jesus as the mediator of the new covenant (9:15).  

This past week we dove into Luke 18:9-14 and the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector. One thing we saw is how pride produces a mis-guided focus, which in turn produces a sense of harmful and fickle self-confidence. Our focus is often either on what others think of us or what we think about ourselves and thus we attempt to build our self-esteem on either an internal or external standard.