I have been reading posts about breaking of bread/lord's supper/communion/eucharist. No doubt there are some weird and wonderful interpretations of it and most of it is denominationally based, not biblically based.
The origins of this was not the New Testament Church (NTC). It was the Catholic church that turned a common meal into a mystical communion that could only be administered by a priest to give the priest more power and to make it more mystical.
The Reformation did not ditch all aspect of Catholicism. It kept the priest and called him pastor and kept the eucharist and called it the Lords Table.
If you go back to the NTC, you will find that they had the breaking of bread. Acts 2. In those days breaking of bread was a common term for a meal. If I invited you to come round and eat with me I would invite you to break bread.
At no time was it a sip of wine or a piece of bread. The church met daily to break bread as there was no welfare system in those days, so if you could not afford a meal you went hungry.
That all changed when the church was born as one of their acts of love was to make sure everyone had a meal that day, hence the breaking of bread. Over a meal, they were taught, had fellowship and prayed.
So when you see the term breaking of bread in scripture think in terms of a meal, not a sip of wine and a piece of bread.
The origins of this was not the New Testament Church (NTC). It was the Catholic church that turned a common meal into a mystical communion that could only be administered by a priest to give the priest more power and to make it more mystical.
The Reformation did not ditch all aspect of Catholicism. It kept the priest and called him pastor and kept the eucharist and called it the Lords Table.
If you go back to the NTC, you will find that they had the breaking of bread. Acts 2. In those days breaking of bread was a common term for a meal. If I invited you to come round and eat with me I would invite you to break bread.
At no time was it a sip of wine or a piece of bread. The church met daily to break bread as there was no welfare system in those days, so if you could not afford a meal you went hungry.
That all changed when the church was born as one of their acts of love was to make sure everyone had a meal that day, hence the breaking of bread. Over a meal, they were taught, had fellowship and prayed.
So when you see the term breaking of bread in scripture think in terms of a meal, not a sip of wine and a piece of bread.