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Sunday Service of Worship2

Introduction

  • Acts 20:7-12

Part 1: Service of the Word

  1. Dismissal of all but baptized believers.

Part 2: Communion

  1. Congregational prayers.

  2. The Lord’s Supper. Here’s the order:

  3. Benediction. E.g., “Depart in peace,” spoken by the deacon.

What We Call It

  • "Taking Communion" "Sharing Communion" "Keeping Communion" "Holy Communion"

  • eucharist = greek thanksgiving

The word “eucharist” means “thanksgiving” and was an early Christian way of referring to the celebration of the Lord’s Table.

  • Holy Sacrament (intinction? the act of dipping bread in the wine so that )
  • The Lord's Table - The Lord's Supper - Last Supper

The Elements - What ARE They exactly?

1. Simply

  • Bread & Wine/Grape Juice
  • Passover in Exodus
  • "Memorial Offering"
  • Luke 22, Last Supper & subsequent death of Christ
  • Acts

2. Theologically

a) We get Jesus.

What ultimately is happening? How do you sum it up?

It teaches love, unity, forgiveness, remembrance, and hope. Jesus referred to himself as the bread of life, emphasizing our relationship with Him.

John 6:48 — I am that bread of life.

"We get Jesus." — ---

b) Mystery

For about a 1000 years, Christians everywhere as best we can tell, kept communion in obedience to Christ's command without necessarily digging more deeply than that for the most part.

  • communion and union

Central to Christian worship, Important and communicated, but necessarily philosophically dissected.

c) Schools

  • TRANSUBSTANTIATION ()
  • CONSUBSTANTIATION (Lutherans)
  • MEMORIAL (Zwingli)

d) Christ is Present

I Corinthians 11:23–34 — v.26 "ye do shew the Lord's death till he come."

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