# Sunday Service of Worship2

## Introduction

- Acts 20:7-12


## Part 1: Service of the Word

8. <u>Dismissal of all but baptized believers</u>.

## 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 <u>the bread of life</u>, emphasizing our relationship with Him.
 
 > John 6:48 &mdash; I am that bread of life.

> "We get Jesus." &mdash; ---

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 &mdash; v.26 "ye do shew the Lord's death till he come."