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One comment I’d like to make is that since the Lord’s Supper was first presented at Passover, it stands to reason that it probably ought to be done no less than once a year.
Ron, I agree. I believe it should be celebrated once a year. I go further and state that the Passover, as Messiah calls it, is no different than what Paul calls the Lord’s Supper. Paul, speaking of The Lord’s Supper in 1 Corinthians 11, is describing the very same thing that Messiah, speaking of The Passover, describes in each of the Synoptic Gospels.
Hello Vini I disagree, respectfully sir, that to have it once a year is far, far to infrequently. Resurrection Sunday should be observed once a year, but to say the Passover is the same as the Lord’s Supper is wrong. The Jews observed Passover but with real lambs and not the Lamb of God. The Passover festival pointed to God’s judgment passing over us. Paul said “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes” (1 Cor 11:26), so it should be done often (quarterly at most, or monthly) but “as often” does not mean once a year. Read all of 1 Cor 11 and you will see that they came together often, and often not in the proper way, but it was never, even in early church history, only once a year. On the contrary, evidence indicates it was done, sometimes more than once a week.
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Someone I met said that communion was something that came to be because someone changed the tradtion from the Passover, the only time we should eat the unleavend bread and wine, and that doing anything else was in violation of the Law, any thoughts on this?