The Love-Feast.

[Adullam]

Greetings to all. This thread endevours to ascertain the practical relevance of the continued observance of corporate meal taking among believers. Or, in other words, just how cool are love-feasts, really?

Please respond with either biblical or extra-biblical exegesis on the matter, or just tell us what you've experienced....or would like to!

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John

 

[destiny]

I think my take on communion would be along the lines of a "love feast", the breaking of bread in remembrance of what Jesus did for us on the cross. I see communion as the sharing of a meal among believers.
I feel that's what Jesus and His disciples were doing when He told them to, "do this in remembrance of me". I realize my views on communion are not in line with most traditional views.

 

[Adullam]

I think my take on communion would be along the lines of a "love feast", the breaking of bread in remembrance of what Jesus did for us on the cross. I see communion as the sharing of a meal among believers.
I feel that's what Jesus and His disciples were doing when He told them to, "do this in remembrance of me". I realize my views on communion are not in line with most traditional views.

Is this your present practice? Do you have real meat-ings? ;)

 

[Nick]

I think my take on communion would be along the lines of a "love feast", the breaking of bread in remembrance of what Jesus did for us on the cross. I see communion as the sharing of a meal among believers.
I feel that's what Jesus and His disciples were doing when He told them to, "do this in remembrance of me". I realize my views on communion are not in line with most traditional views.

That's what my church does this as well: the breaking of bread and the drinking of wine (or grape juice) to remember Jesus's last night with his disciples. For he said that the bread is his flesh and the wine his blood, and we should eat these together in remembrance of him.

I take it is a symbolical thing, something that you do to remember Jesus and what he did, and he spilled his blood and broke his flesh for us.
We don't do this to be saved, or to become "better" Christians. But this is more of a Christian thing to do, obviously. You wouldn't do this if you weren't Christian.

It is still relevant today, and it will never be irrelevant. (in this world, at least).

What do you mean about meat-ings? Are you talking about meat sacrifices, like the passover? If so, then that is now irrelevant, I believe.

 

[Adullam]

I think my take on communion would be along the lines of a "love feast", the breaking of bread in remembrance of what Jesus did for us on the cross. I see communion as the sharing of a meal among believers.
I feel that's what Jesus and His disciples were doing when He told them to, "do this in remembrance of me". I realize my views on communion are not in line with most traditional views.

That's what my church does this as well: the breaking of bread and the drinking of wine (or grape juice) to remember Jesus's last night with his disciples. For he said that the bread is his flesh and the wine his blood, and we should eat these together in remembrance of him.

I take it is a symbolical thing, something that you do to remember Jesus and what he did, and he spilled his blood and broke his flesh for us.
We don't do this to be saved, or to become "better" Christians. But this is more of a Christian thing to do, obviously. You wouldn't do this if you weren't Christian.

It is still relevant today, and it will never be irrelevant. (in this world, at least).

What do you mean about meat-ings? Are you talking about meat sacrifices, like the passover? If so, then that is now irrelevant, I believe.

We are not talking about thimblefuls here, but a full meal! A love feast is a full meal deal...or a meating! We tend to get carried away with the thymbol-ism.

It's not the...."thith ith a thymbol of our thaviour" type thing. ;)

 

[destiny]

I think my take on communion would be along the lines of a "love feast", the breaking of bread in remembrance of what Jesus did for us on the cross. I see communion as the sharing of a meal among believers.
I feel that's what Jesus and His disciples were doing when He told them to, "do this in remembrance of me". I realize my views on communion are not in line with most traditional views.

Is this your present practice? Do you have real meat-ings? ;)

We used to gather with a three other families and fellowship around a meal together. Circumstances ended that for now, but we still share meals with a few friends who are believers every time the opportunity presents itself.
It's always very informal since these are friends we've known for a long time. We just acknowledge the Lord Jesus and honor Him through the sharing of our meal. It's good fellowship and edification, no rituals or program.. just allowing the Holy Spirit to move through a simple meal together.

 

[Adullam]

Very good! We meet in homes through a small network of house churches. Depending on the church we either begin or end with a full meal. Some are pot-luck, some are prepared. We ourselves meet on Saturday for supper then retire to the great room for the evening, where there is rejoicing and sharing from the word, prayer etc. :adore

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John