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Forum: Theological Expressions
Re:

Partial Exposy on "If the Apostle Paul were to Visit Church Today" posted by RTC (Yesuthass)
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Exposing Yesuthass' Exposy (RTC)
Re:

Full Meal or Rememberance (passerby)
Date: 2001, Apr 27
From: RTC

What Jesus was observing on the Upper Room with his disciples was the Passover Feast or Pasach Festival which was a law of the Old Covenant. Jesus came to fulfill all the laws and it is obvious why he observed it with his disciples. ++Incorrect. When Jesus talk about filfilling the law it wasn't referring to oberving religious ceremonies and rituals, though as a Jew he observed all these things. By filfilling the law meant meeting the righteous demands of the Law that God gave to Moses by which man can have free access to God. What he did was to insitute something new based on the old. No longer was an entire meal necessary but only the bread to remember the broken body of Christ and the cup to represent the new covenant. ++Again here is man's tendency to reduce something which is pregnant with meaning and substance to a mere ritual. The early church never thought of the Lord's Supper as part of an unnecssary entire meal that was to be done away with. A full meal may increase our fellowship time but I don't think a full meal after service would remind us of His death, resurrection, new covenant and hope that we have in Christ Jesus. ++If you are thinking of grafting the idea of a full meal onto a traditional church service, then of course you can forget about it. As you have said, it would not make any sense to have a meal after the service. The early church never thought of their gatherings as a service. Their meetings were not characterised by our modern day standard flow of items in the service. Most of the teaching, sharing, praying and worship took place around the Lord's Table. Time wasn't hurrying them. They weren't in a hurry to vacate their homes for a second service, get what I mean?