Build and edify closely identify God working in us to will and to do His good pleasure. We build up ourselves and one another and edify ourselves and one another through prayer, fasting and participating in the Lord’s Supper. Those lead us to maturity as we grow up into Christ the head of His body. … [Read more…]
The heart of early Christian worship was table fellowship. Throughout the first three centuries Christian communities gathered once a week for a meal. Alan Kreider, The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, 2016, pg 186. I like that Alan uses the word “communities” rather that “church.” … [Read more…]
If you invite lone followers of Jesus for the Lord’s Supper in your home, you will be bringing them into agape fellowship. The 3,000 Jews that turned to Jesus on the Day of Pentecost had that kind of fellowship and it continued for over 150 years as it sparsely does to this day. I ask … [Read more…]
The words breaking of bread signify eating together with one another in reverence and harmony with the Lord. Jesus broke bread during the Passover meal with His disciples and turned that Old Covenant feast into the prophetic sign of the New Covenant. We call this sign the Last Supper, the Lord’s Supper, a Love/agape feast, … [Read more…]
The Lord’s Supper, is a meal we eat and drink together. We celebrate the Lord’s Supper as God’s holy ones, saints, gathered together in Christ to eat the Lord’s Supper in remembrance of His death till He comes. Just prior to His death, Jesus ate the Passover with the 12. During the meal, He turned … [Read more…]
The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. John 6:63 HCSB When we celebrate The Lord’s Supper, we spiritually participate in the prophetic sign of the New Covenant, remembering Jesus’ death till He comes. These are … [Read more…]
Picture this Lord’s Supper gathering as a special meal for a special guest in your home. Christ Jesus is the special guest (Mt 18:18-20). It is a feast. This feast is filled with prophetic signs of our salvation (1 Cor 5:7-8; 1 Cor 10:14-17). Your guests should all fit around your dining table. Put out … [Read more…]
Note from editor. The feast of Passover was a sign celebrating God’s deliverance of His people Israel from slavery to Egypt. Jesus turned that feast into the Lord’s Supper into His prophetic sign of the new covenant, through which God our Father delivered us from the tyranny of darkness. I excerpted the following from Matthew … [Read more…]
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. John 6:63 NASB The setting for those words began with Jesus feeding the 5,000, near the sea of Galilee. Then to the synagogue in Capernaum. Prior to Jesus speaking those words, … [Read more…]