The BREAD...Crutons Or Pita?

[Bruce S]

I have have attended many different denominations, and chuch's over the years. Taken communion where appropriate and offered.

I've notice a great difference in the bread offered as the sybolic body.

Some us preprocessed wafers or hosts, others little squares like chicklets, still others regular bread cut up into cubes.

I think the real dinner at Passover would have been unleavened bread, sort of like Jewish Matzah bread, torn into pieces by hand. Have never seen that done where I've gone.

Just out of curiousity, what style does your church go with?

I opt for...

 

[ZiSunka]

In parts of Indonesia, it's little pieces of baked banana.

You use what you got.

The Last Supper was done with unleavened bread because it was the Passover and that's all there was. In other places, Jesus called himself the Bread, but didn't say anything about being unleavened Bread only. Still other places, He called Himself manna and who knows whether that was leavened or not. It was little flakes of bread, that's all we know.

So what does it matter what bread you use to celebrate communion with? The look and taste of the bread isn't important, it's the seriousness of understanding the symbolism that matters. Food is love, Jesus offered us Himself as food to show us that He loves us.

Whatever you have available, that's what you use. If you make something special, that's what you use.

 

[Serapha]

Well, what difference does it make...


Christ said, "do this in remembrance of Me."


I can't remember Christ with honor if I can't "remember" how He did it....


unleavened bread and the fruit of the vine....


For the vine for the "passover feast" to be blessed, it had to be at least in a ratio of 10:1, ten parts of water to one part of wine, more likely though, it was a ratio of 3:1 as per the Shabbath 77a. '

Perahim 108b states that every Jew was to drink during the passover, four cups of wine that was mixed in a ratio of three parts of water to one part of wine. Wine is not necessarily "alcohol", but can be considered as the product of the vine.

Does it make a difference... well. I recently observed the sacrament being served in a church with leavened bread and water....

Somehow I didn't "remember" Christ or what His blood or body represented as there was nothing in comon to the Last Supper that Christ blessed and served to His disciples.


~malaka~

 

[Lotar]

My church uses unleavened bread and grape juce.

 

[Photini]

My Church uses leavened bread and wine.
The significance of the leavening is in relation to the Resurrection.

 

[Monika]

We drink grape juice for communion, and for the communion bread - my mother makes it, and it gets cut up into little cubes. I guess it's leavened (it's just a regular bread machine mix, for white bread).

I think it's a really loving gesture for her to do for her church family - especially since she has Celiac Disease and can't partake of the bread she made (celiacs must completely avoid gluten).

 

[Yahweh Nissi]

My church uses leavened bread and wine. I have never liked the wafers, although it is a superficial matter.

 

[Grace_Alone4gives]

we use grape juice and bread cut up into peices. Good enough for me, and Christ also I believe.

 

[eldermike]

My church uses wafers and grape juice. My small group uses uleavened bread and grape juice. Having the Lords Supper in a small group setting in someones home is a great way to worship and "remember".

 

[ZiSunka]

I had communion in a tiny Carribbean church where the people could only afford grape koolaid and stale white bread, but it was just as powerful and meaningful as unleavened bread and wine. I kept remembering what Christ said about leavening,

Matthew 16:5-12 Now when His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees." And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have taken no bread." But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, "O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?--but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Leaven inside our hearts and churches is a much bigger issue than leaven inside our communion bread.

 

[ZiSunka]

My church uses wafers and grape juice. My small group uses uleavened bread and grape juice. Having the Lords Supper in a small group setting in someones home is a great way to worship and "remember".

Amen! Kinda like Jesus and the apostles did!