COMMENT #4:

I have been a Christian for sometime and have taken the Lord's Supper every first day of the week, we have a new preacher and he teaches that you can take it whenever, and another person teaches you take it once a year, during the feast of the Passover, because that's when Jesus wanted to be remembered, I am getting confused,,,,How do we know that when it says they met together for the breaking of bread, that it is talking about the Lord's Supper, maybe it is referring to a meal?

Why does it not say anywhere in the Bible when to take the Lord's Supper, all I read about Jesus saying is as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death til he comes, maybe we can take it everyday??? Help me here...I thought I knew what the Bible said, but people are confusing me.

CLARIFICATION #4:

It's true the meaning of breaking bread can be for both a common meal or the Lords supper. A few simple things first. When Jesus said "as often as you eat this bread" He was explaining how (in remembrance of me) to eat and drink not when. This could also be read "every time you eat, remember me" and get a better understanding of what He was saying.

Paul was correcting the Corinthians for coming together on the first day of the week and having a common meal in 1 Corinthians 11:18-22

1 Corinthians 11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. 19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. 20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. 21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

I think this show that in other verses, when the disciples come together and break bread it was the Lord supper in which it is referring to. Otherwise Paul would not have condemned the Corinthians.

Again Paul make a point that when we come together it's not for a common meal in 1 Corinthians 11:34.

This reinforces Acts 20:7 to mean that the disciples came to take the Lords supper on the first day of the week and not to eat a common meal. Also the day of week we are to eat.

Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread

In Acts 20:7-11 we read And upon the first day of the week where the disciples came together to break bread but, before Paul leave he breaks bread again. Now I don't think he would have eaten two full meals in these verses. The first is the Lords supper because it refers to all the disciples. The second is a meal because it refers to him only.

Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. 8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. 9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. 10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. 11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

Also, God warns us not to make traditions of men. If we did not take the Lords supper every first day of the week, then a man made tradition would need to tell us how often to take the Lords supper.

There are examples of taking the Lord supper every week, but I know of no example for any other time frame.

END OF COMMENT: #4