What Is the Meaning of Communion?
What Is the Meaning of Communion? Communion (the Lord's Supper) is a memorial meal where believers remember Christ's broken body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes again.
Key verse: 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 (KJV)
Communion (the Lord's Supper) is a memorial meal where believers remember Christ's broken body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes again.
Communion (the Lord's Supper) is a memorial meal where believers remember Christ's broken body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes again.
"This is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me... This cup is the new testament in my blood." — 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 (KJV)
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Jesus instituted communion at the Last Supper. He took bread, broke it, and said, 'This is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me' (1 Corinthians 11:24). He took the cup: 'This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me' (1 Corinthians 11:25). Paul adds, 'For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come' (1 Corinthians 11:26). Christians disagree on what happens during communion. Catholics hold transubstantiation (elements become Christ's actual body and blood). Lutherans teach consubstantiation (Christ is present 'in, with, and under' the elements). Reformed Christians see a spiritual presence. Baptists and many evangelicals view it as a memorial. All agree it is a sacred act of remembrance, thanksgiving, and anticipation. Paul warns against partaking 'unworthily' (1 Corinthians 11:27), calling believers to self-examination before participating.
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"This is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me... This cup is the new testament in my blood."
"For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come."
"This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me."
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What Is the Passover in the Bible?
The Passover commemorates God delivering Israel from Egypt — when the blood of a lamb on the doorposts caused the angel of death to 'pass over' Hebrew homes.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith — a public declaration of identification with Christ's death, burial, and resurrection.
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προσευχή (proseuchē) • Communication with God — addressing Him with worship, petition, confession, and thanksgiving.
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