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Why does the church of Christ eat the Lord's Supper every Sunday?

 

The short answer is they do it because that is what the scriptures teach. This question would probably never arise except that some religious groups eat the Lord's Supper quarterly, or on special occasions, or whenever they want to. We know that Jesus instructed his disciples to remember him by eating the bread and drinking the fruit of the vine (grape juice) (Luke 22:19-20). But is there a divinely regulated frequency? Luke tells us, "And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread" (Acts 20:7). From this it is clear that one of the purposes of their assembling together on Sunday was to "break bread," not just to eat, but to "break [the] bread." This refers to the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper was eaten when the church "came together" (1 Cor. 11:20) at Corinth. The church came together every first day of the week (Sunday) to gather the collection (1 Cor. 16:1-2). Both of these items were their regular practice. Thus we may conclude that they ate the Lord's Supper with the same frequency that they took up the collection.

 

This is an approved apostolic example of how to obey a command. A different frequency or a random practice must be based on human authority which in matters of faith is no authority. The Jews of old were required to "remember the sabbath day" (Exodus 20:8). They didn't have to ask "Which one?" because it is clear that God intended them to observe every sabbath. Neither do we have to ask "which Sunday?" concerning the Lord's Supper.
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