What is the doctrinal reason for the Lord's Supper in 1 Corinthians 11:26?
The doctrinal reason for the Lord's Supper is that every time believers eat the bread and drink the cup, they show forth or remind themselves of the Lord's death. The Apostle gives no stipulation about how often a church must practice it; frequency is each church's prerogative.
Les explains that 1 Corinthians 11:26 gives the doctrinal reason for the Lord's Supper. As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show forth, or remind yourself of, the Lord's death. This is the first time it is explained, and before the Gospels were written Paul writes the same words to the Corinthians. Les points out there is no stipulation from the Apostle as to how often a church practices the Lord's Supper. Whether every Sunday, once a year, once a quarter, once a month, or however, that is not the thing here. The Word is whenever you have the Lord's Supper, whether it is often or not as often.
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
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Does the Bible say how often a church should take the Lord's Supper?
There is no stipulation from the Apostle Paul as to how often a church practices the Lord's Supper; whether weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly is each church's prerogative, since the Word simply says whenever you have it.
How often should a church practice the Lord's Supper?
There is no stipulation from the Apostle as to how often a church practices the Lord's Supper; whether weekly, yearly, quarterly, or monthly is each church's own prerogative, and the Word only says "whenever" you have the Lord's Supper.