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NASB | Acts 2:42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:42 They were continually and faithfully devoting themselves to the instruction of the apostles, and to fellowship, to eating meals together and to prayers. |
Subject: Lord's Supper discussion. |
Bible Note: Hello Dan, No,I don't have to think if they did or not it tells me Acts 20 Ministering at Troas 7 Now on the "first day" of the week, "when" the disciples came together to break bread, You stated; "To say one way or the other is the only way is to add a command that does not exist in the Bible." The bible is for our learning and is a guide for us to use when coming into the presence of God to worship Him. Jesus said "as often" as "you" do this. Jesus was speaking to His Apostles was He not? You can say that this not a direct command such as when God told Noah to specifically use "Gopher" wood or Numbers 19 when God told them to sacrifice a "red heifer" but because Jesus said as often (leaving it up to them) as you do this, it is a command none the less. So from reading we can see that the Apostles and the First church (which is our pattern) came together on the first day of the week and took of the Lords Supper on this day. Also as I have stated before Acts 2:42 says they (the disciples)continued in the Apostles doctrine. If the work and the church that Jesus started was left in the hands of the Apostles, and they were obviously being guided by the Holy Spirit because Jesus said He would send them a Helper, then shouldn't we as the disciples did some 2000 years ago continue in this same doctrine? Interestingly enough these Disciples were first called Christians at Antioch. Acts 11 26And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. The name Christian is a Holy and Divine name given to those who followed Jesus Christ. Aren't we called Christians today? Shouldn't we do as they did? After all the things which they did and how they worshiped were recorded in the scriptures. God didn't need filler material, these things were written so we would know how God expects us worship Him. You said to command the Lords Supper on the first day of the week would be adding a command that didn't exist, I tell you if were not a command and expected of Christians it would not have been shown in the bible as a part of their worship. We have a pattern to follow, and that pattern is the New Testament. If we do not follow that pattern then how can we be considered Christians? Raven |