The Lord’s Supper: Acts
Luke records that the disciples broke bread together daily. (Acts 2:46-47) Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Supper: 1 Corinthians
Paul’s instructions in 1 Corinthians assume communion to be normative for that congregation. (1 Cor 10:16-17) Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Supper: John Mark Hicks on the Communion
John Mark Hicks has posted a series of articles on the scriptural roots of communion, and he’s provided some very helpful observations. We begin with his article Breaking Bread in Luke-Acts VI: General...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Supper: The Early Church
I offer some material from the uninspired writings of early Christians to prove that I’m not crazy — not to establish a theology of the Lord’s Supper. In fact, we in the Churches of Christ are bad to...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Supper: Further from the Early Church
An excellent source book on early church practice is Everett Ferguson’s Early Christians Speak, vol. 1. (The original appears to be out of print, although Early Christians Speak – Vol. 2 can still be...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Supper: The First Day
Closely tied to the Eucharist is the weekly meeting on Sundays. Of course, we see in Acts 2 that the early church met daily. There’s no mention of a weekly gathering in Acts until much later. Indeed,...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Supper: Reaching Some Conclusions, Part 1
The Churches of Christ have defined themselves by their insistence on weekly communion. Our members will come late and leave early, but they’ll be certain to take the Lord’s Supper. And we have members...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Supper: Reaching Some Conclusions, Part 2
“Cup” and “loaf” are parts of a meal It helps, I think, to realize that a cup of wine and loaf of bread was standard for First Century meals, especially meals shared with guests. To us, “cup of wine”...
View ArticleCommunion Meditation/Election: John 6:44 and the Passover, Part 4
Epilogue — The Watch (Mark 14:33-34) He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Supper: The Experts Weigh In
John Mark Hicks recently posted some material on the Lord’s Supper that’s very pertinent to this series, which I thought I’d wrapped up a few weeks ago. The post summarizes a scholarly paper he...
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