Lord's Supper

The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church,

through partaking of the bread and wine,

memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

• Matthew 3.13-17 Matthew 26.26-30 Matthew 28.19-20 Mark 1.9-11 Mark 14.22-26
• Luke 3.21-22 Luke 22.19-20 John 3.23 Acts 2.41-42 Acts 8.35-39
• Acts 16.30-33 Acts 20.7 Romans 6.3-5 1 Corinthians 10.16 1 Corinthians 10.21
• 1 Corinthians 11.23-29 Colossians 2.12

An ordinance is an act:

1. commanded by the Lord Jesus in the Gospels

and given by him for his followers to practice Matthew 26.17-30 Mark 14.12-26 Luke 22.7-23

2. passed on as a tradition by Jesus’ authorized agents, the apostles, in the letters to the churches

1 Corinthians 10.14-22 1 Corinthians 11.17-34 and

3. practiced by the early church in the history of the church recorded in Acts 2.42 Acts 2.46 Acts 20.7 Acts 20.11

Ordinances are symbolic acts that set forth primary facts of the Christian faith

and are obligatory for all who believe in Jesus Christ.

Baptism dramatically pictures our entering into covenant relationship with God

through Jesus Christ by faith, (baptism does not save)

and the Lord’s Supper portrays our continuing in this relationship.

Various designations have been used for the Lord’s Supper

due to the fact that the act is referred to in a variety of ways in the New Testament.

These designations include:

1. breaking of bread Acts 2.42 Acts 20.7 1 Corinthians 10.16

2. communion 1 Corinthians 10.16

3. the Lord’s Supper 1 Corinthians 11.20 and

4. the Lord’s table 1 Corinthians 10.20

Believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper

denies the existence of a universal church in any form.

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