Q. Why Did Jesus Give Us Communion?
Why Did Jesus Give Us Communion?
What is communion? What is the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, Breaking of bread?
Matthew 26:26-30
This wine is my blood and this bread is my body is not literally that, but is a symbol.
Some people think that the wine and the bread literally changes to become Jesus body and blood.
What do you think?
My experiences taking communion
Communal cup and plate
walk up the front of church and kneel
small cups and bread passed around
Some churches let children take communion
some churches just pray for the children
some wait until a child has chosen to be baptised
some churches require you to be a member of their gathering
After Jesus died, people believed and started calling themselves Christians. Instead of going to the temple to worship God they began meeting together and called these meetings ‘church’ which means assemble.
In these meetings, they began taking part in communion, or the Lords Supper, and we still do it today.
Paul noticed some problems with the way the Corinthian church were doing it and wrote them a letter with some better ways to have communion:
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Why Did Jesus Give Us Communion? To remember him. As an outward sign of something happening inside of us - we are accepting the wine and the bread outwardly and inwardly, we are accepting Jesus body broken and his blood shed for our sins.
How Should We Take Communion?
Only if we believe in Jesus and have become a Christian.
With respect for Jesus and what he did for us on the cross.
Reverently
Discussion Questions:
Do you think Jesus was saying a metaphor when he said the wine was his blood and the bread was his body, or do you think it really was and is during communion?
Talk about your church - How does your church do communion? When does your church allow people to start taking communion? What rules does your church have around communion?
Is taking communion something that you would be interested in doing? Why/why not?
