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Good question TLP,How often? Is it true that you can take communion either every week, month or year? Thanks everyone!
It depends on your church, how often they offer it.How often? Is it true that you can take communion either every week, month or year? Thanks everyone!
I've never received much teaching on Communion that explained its purpose outside of the routine use of Scriptures describing it. It seems to be a kind of NT ritual, in which believers meet together for purposes of edification and recognize Jesus as the source of their life and inspiration.How often? Is it true that you can take communion either every week, month or year? Thanks everyone!
Different churches have Communion at different intervals. I've been in churches that do it weekly. Our church does it monthly. I grew up in a church that did it once every three months.How often? Is it true that you can take communion either every week, month or year? Thanks everyone!
That's different. They ate their meat. That's a meal not a remembrance or honoring of the Lord as in partaking of the Lord's supper.Acts 2:46
"And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,"
Every day
I haven't really looked into it. But I imagine the fellowship of Christians met together regularly, even daily, and shared meals. And certainly not every meal was communion. I'm not really clear on how they decided when to celebrate communion, as opposed to just sharing meals with one another.Acts 2:46
"And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,"
Every day
Read the following. Start with Matthew 26:26-28, then Acts 20:7, then 1 Cor 11:23-29, then 1 Cor 16:1-2. You'll see the ref to the 1st day of the week also mentioned in 1 Cor 16:1-2 regarding taking up the collection, so that in conjunction with the other verses would seem to indicate that it was the first day of the week that the disciples gathered together as the church to worship, partakers of the Lord's supper, and conduct church affairs such as the collection.I haven't really looked into it. But I imagine the fellowship of Christians met together regularly, even daily, and shared meals. And certainly not every meal was communion. I'm not really clear on how they decided when to celebrate communion, as opposed to just sharing meals with one another.
Amen,Acts 2:46
"And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,"
Every day
That's what I was insinuating, that Communion was not likely a *daily* ritual, that they sometimes *daily* met with one another and shared meals. That was my point, that *eating together* was not always "Communion."Read the following. Start with Matthew 26:26-28, then Acts 20:7, then 1 Cor 11:23-29, then 1 Cor 16:1-2. You'll see the ref to the 1st day of the week also mentioned in 1 Cor 16:1-2 regarding taking up the collection, so that in conjunction with the other verses would seem to indicate that it was the first day of the week that the disciples gathered together as the church to worship, partakers of the Lord's supper, and conduct church affairs such as the collection.
Often . DO it in remembrance of the glorious LORD . Let all that has breath praise the glorious Lord .How often? Is it true that you can take communion either every week, month or year? Thanks everyone!
What the disciples did was not communion. It was a meal that was shared by all which is what the breaking of bread means in the original. The communion was something that was introduced by Catholics and the protestant church continued with it during the reformation.Every week as did the the disciples.
Acts 20:7
7And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
When you take all the aforementioned scriptures into consideration as mentioned in my previous post #14, it suggests that the 1st day of the week and the breaking of bread participated in thereon was not a meal, but rather the time that the disciples came together as the church and remembered the Lord accordingly at that time, partaking of the Lord's supper weekly. Look closely at the scriptures cited to ascertain the difference.What the disciples did was not communion. It was a meal that was shared by all which is what the breaking of bread means in the original. The communion was something that was introduced by Catholics and the protestant church continued with it during the reformation.
Jesus twice said "do this in remembrance of me".What the disciples did was not communion. It was a meal that was shared by all which is what the breaking of bread means in the original. The communion was something that was introduced by Catholics and the protestant church continued with it during the reformation.
I am not denying the fact, but what is the context and meaning of the words. Until you know what they are you are just trotting out tradition.Jesus twice said "do this in remembrance of me".
1 Corinthians 11:23-25, "For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread, and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, every time you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
This happened long before the Catholic and Protestant denominations came into being.
Well, believe it or not I have looked at the scripture time and time again. I have compared notes with scholars who are impeccable in their understanding. I have read the comments of people who are experts in the language of the day. When all is said and done, what I have said is the product of extensive research that cannot be faulted because it is not my ideas. it is the product of learned men.When you take all the aforementioned scriptures into consideration as mentioned in my previous post #14, it suggests that the 1st day of the week and the breaking of bread participated in thereon was not a meal, but rather the time that the disciples came together as the church and remembered the Lord accordingly at that time, partaking of the Lord's supper weekly. Look closely at the scriptures cited to ascertain the difference.