This Sunday, I plan to preach on Luke 24:13-35. In which Jesus travels with two disciples on the way to Emmaus before being made known to them in the breaking of the bread. Justo L. Gonzalez aptly sums up the core teaching of this passage:

“The Word and the sacrament [Holy Communion] stand together: the Word explains the Sacrament, and the Sacrament enacts the Word and makes it a reality for the disciples. He [the Risen Christ] is made known to them in the breaking of the bread; but it is because along the road he has explained Scripture to [them] that they know who it is that they know! [1]”

[1] Justo L. González, Luke (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010), 278.