An Analysis Of The Lord's Supper

The New Testament gives us direction to praise and worship in our churches. I believe the Lord’s Supper is one of the most important aspect of our worship services. Jesus described this as a remembrance meal and the instructions that He gave to us was a centerpoint in the first century worship assemblies. In this essay I would like to do an exegesis of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 and how our modern day church should follow it. The headline in the New American Standard bible in which I use and will use for this essay labels this part of scripture as Conduct at the Lord’s Supper. One can see in the full context that the Corinthian were having many problems with conduct within the church and Paul was giving some explicit information and direction to them. Paul says to them in vs. 17 that he does not praise them for their actions because they are not coming together for the better of the church but for the worse. Paul has heard that there were

They shall eat together not divided by richness or poorness. If they are hungry eat at home so no one goes without and they will not come under judgment. He will talk about more when he comes. For the rest of the essay I will talk some about the structure of the supper in the past and finish off by how I think it should be implemented in our churches today. In the Lord’s Supper we remember the past. It is the shedding of the blood of Christ which brings us the forgiveness of sins. It was during the Passover meal on the evening prior to His death when Jesus instituted the Supper. It was the Israelites that were often told to remember God’s faithfulness to them. Jesus brings us all together in fellowship to share the Lord ’s Supper. It is when we get together to participate in the Supper we can eat it as the body in the presence of Jesus. Such as in the Old Testament we are to celebrate the Supper. It is meant to be a joyous