COMMUNION

Musick-al note # 317                                            

      Can one use any type of bread that is available or must we use the unleavened bread in the Lord’s Supper for worship?  This question presupposes that man can render worship to God in any manner that he chooses.  When we strive to follow the New Testament and only the New Testament, we find NO COMMAND or no example of the Christians of the First Century using anything other than unleavened bread in the keeping of the communion service.  Paul spoke of the excesses of the Corinthian church in which some drank to excess and were drunken when they should be remembering the Lord’s death.  The night in which Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper (communion), He used unleavened bread and the fruit of the vine that was on the table from the Passover.  He said in Matthew 26:28-29, “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you. “For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.  I tell you I shall not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”  If Christians desire to have the Lord eat and drink (commune) with them, they will use only unleavened bread and the fruit of the vine to remember the Lord’s death following the example of Jesus early disciples.

          Gordon Musick