9.00am – 10.00 am
The Lord’s Supper
“This do in remembrance of Me” 1 Cor. 11:24
“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.” 1 Cor. 11:26Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to meet the first Christians?
As the earlier Christians did, we come together on the first day of each week to “break bread” (Acts 2:42; 20:7).
Being a divine appointment, it should never be relegated to a secondary place, or treated as a matter of occasional obedience. It is to be a time of calling our Lord to mind and declaring His death for us. It is observed not as a sacrament administered by a clergyman, but celebrated as described in 1 Corinthians 11. The prime purpose is to minister to the heart of God, not to minister to the saints as in our other meetings.
The uniqueness of the worship meeting is seen primarily in its format. It is an open meeting with spontaneous, multiple participation on the part of the men in fellowship. There must order.
Let all things be done decently and in order. 1 Cor. 14:40
The functional format of the worship meeting includes the following elements of participation:
The suggestion of a hymn to be sung with or without comment
Praise leading the congregation to add “amen”
A reading of appropriate scripture with or without comment
The giving of thanks for the bread and the cup
The collections
The announcements
Why do women wear head covering?
God’s glory is to be seen alone in the assembly of the saints. In order to do this, the men remain uncovered by not having long hair and by removing any head coverings, because the man is “the image and glory of God” (1 Cor. 11:7).
The women, however, are the stewards of the coverings. There are two competing glories in the church. “The woman is the glory of man” (I Corinthians 11:7) and “If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her” (I Corinthians 11:15). Because there are two symbolic glories to be covered, there must be two coverings. The first head covering , Greek (peribolaion), is the woman’s long hair (verse 15) to hide the glory of the man ( the woman herself). The second head covering, Greek (katakalupto), is to hide her glory, which is her own hair. In this way, God’s authority is declared in the church. By it the men are reminded that, in their ministry, their glory is to be hidden. The angels are also instructed by it (I Corinthians 11:10).