Every Three Minutes
Story★★★★Legendary sports broadcaster Jon Miller, who provided the play-by-plays for the Baltimore Orioles for many years, was considered one of the best sports announcers in the nation. His sense of drama and his voice of authority could make even an 8-1 blowout sound exciting. In broadcasting a game, Miller never forgot the most important thing. He always kept an egg-timer to remind him to give the score every three minutes. The Lord’s Supper is, in a way, like that. Amid all the vigor, drama, and disappointment of life, it reminds us on a regular basis, every week or every month, of the most important thing.
The point
Jon Miller's habit of checking an egg-timer every three minutes to announce the score in baseball is compared to the Lord's Supper: regular reminders of life's most important reality prevent the memorial from becoming mere formality.