Contemplative Prayer Stations

There is a covenantial aspect to Communion and this contemplative prayer station explores that.
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Directions for Leadership:
We have not figured out how to make this station as visual as we like, seeing how laying out a dead cow most likely wouldn’t fly *grin*, so instead we lay out the communion cup and bread next to the direction (which are below). You will need a few bibles turned to the section indicated in the directions.
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During the time of Abram, when two people would make an important deal or covenant, they would each provide an agreed upon number of animals. Then they would cut the animals in half and put half on either side, making 2 rows. The agreeing parties would then walk between the rows, symbolizing that if either party were to break the covenant that the same fate would befall them.

In Genesis 15, God makes a covenant with Abram and seals it by doing precisely the above. The difference is that God did not let Abram pass through the rows, only himself. Why do you think God did it this way?

Read Genesis 15:1-21

In the scripture, when Jesus breaks the bread in half and shares the cup at the last supper, he shows that he is the sacrifice broken for the new covenant. What do you think is the significance of this is? What does it show about who God is?