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Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by rlvaughn, Oct 22, 2018.

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  1. rlvaughn

    rlvaughn Well-Known Member
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    ...the Lord's Supper?

    In another discussion venue someone mentioned "communion" and received one response that said:
    Confronted with the use of the word in 1 Corinthians 10:16, the respondent on backed up a bit, writing:
    I've been a "we/wee Baptists" for some 40 years now, and I don't think I have heard that objection before. "We" have always used the terms interchangeably, while recognizing that communion could have a broader range of meaning.

    What do you call the Lord's Supper? Anyone here object to the term communion in reference to the Lord's Supper?

    (I've been a saved Baptist church member for 42 years, but was raised Baptist, so have a longer knowledge than that.)
     
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    The Lord's Supper, The Lord's Table, Communion.
     
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    The 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith calls it the Lord's Supper but also describes it as "communion with Christ" (30.8). Either way is fine.
     
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    We've used all three.
    1 Corinthians 11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
    1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
    1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

    Perhaps body & blood of the New Testament might be apt also, based on the Gospels.
     
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    IMHO consistency is helpful.
     
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    In my experience it's usually called the Lord's Supper, but sometimes it's communion. The latter does not connote sacramentalism. See Hiscox's Standard Baptist Manual, John Gill, James Pendleton's Baptist Church Manual, and Francis Wayland, among others; all use them interchangeably.
     
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    I would also point out that such staunch Baptists as Keach and Gill even used the term Eucharist without hinting of sacramentalism.
     
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    In general, the Lord's Supper. Sometimes the Lord's table. I have heard used and maybe even used myself the term Communion.
     
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    Sometimes "the cup", Sometimes "the bread".
     
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    ". . . For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.. . ." -- 1 Corinthians 10:12. We as Christians are of the body of Christ through faith. And that fellowship we call communion is a remembrance of Christ's death for our sins He finished once and for all on the cross prior to His physical death (John 19:28; John 19:30).
     
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    Can you expound?
     
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    communion, or since we practice footwashing with communion the service is frequently called footwashing. I have heard some of the older ones refer to it as the sacrament (pronounced with first a being a long a sound)
     
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    The church I currently attend calls it, for the most part, the Lord's Supper. Although, I have heard our pastor use 'communion' in the same sentence / paragraph while explaining the importance of the Lord's Supper.
     
    #15 HeDied4U, Oct 24, 2018
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