Do I like Johnny?? Yes, I do ! I honestly think he makes people think and I admire him for being so dedicated to the study of Gods word, but does this mean that Johnny is never wrong and I must see things his way or be doomed? There is very little that I disagree with Johnny, but its enough that his factious ways would boot me to the curb for holding another view other than his. Here are some of the things I would be booted to the curb for….I disagree with him regarding the Lords supper being something one MUST do each Sunday. I think its great to honor Christ each Sunday as he does, but scripture does not make this some law that one must “observe days” to honor Christ. I also disagree with his position on music – if silence mean one cant have music then silence also means one cant have other things not mentioned in the text, but here they bend the rules. I also don’t agree totally with his view on baptism and denominationalism….
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March 24, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Greetings,
If we are not to obeserve the Lord’s Supper every Lord’s Day (i.e. Sunday), then how often is often, in your opinion. Jesus said, “whenever you drink this cup” (1 Cor 11.25), or “as often as you drink this cup;” thus, how often are we supposed to drink the cup? Thanks.
Nick
March 24, 2008 at 6:02 pm
you answered your own question “as often as”. If I tell you to go to the park “as ofetn as” that clearly leaves the door open to any day and time. The early church met daily too and many believe they were meeting daily for the sake of the Lords Supper and Acts records them meeting at a certain place in an upper room with not woman upon the first day of the week. Lets not just take the example of the day from that passge and make that some law, be a true legalist and make it all law if youre gonna take that posistion….meaning have no women there and meet at night……..and many church of Christ people meet twice on Sundays just in case some missed the moring service, can one take it twice on Sunday? Can one honor Christ on each Sudan and each Tuesday?? Will God send one to helll for honoring Christ twice each week??
March 25, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I’m not sure where you get the “no women” passage. While some believe that the first century church met daily to eat the Lord’s Supper, I do not. I know they met from house and broke bread, but I understand that to be a common meal. What I do know is that the Corinthian church ate the Lord’s Supper every Lord’s Day and based on their example we do likewise. After all, they lived in the first century with the Apostles (Paul wrote two letter to them and visited them) and if they were not in line with God’s will, then they would have been corrected. It would have been easy for the apostles to say “eat the Lord’s Supper everyday” or once a month, year, bi-monthyly, etc. But they ate the Lord’s Supper on the first day of the week. So why shouldn’t we follow their example since they apparently got it right.
Besides all this, we carry with us the resurrection of Jesus everyday. As a Christian, we live as resurrected people – raised from the dead (spiritually) and live (spiritually), seated in the heavenly realms with Christ. The Lord’s Supper is designed to bring Christians together to examine, anticipate, and proclaim the Lord’s death, until he comes. And we do that every Sunday, following the lead of the first century church.
Now if someone wants to eat it two, three, five times a week, I suppose they could. My question would be why? How are they justifying that with Scripture and first century example? Can they give a reason for why they do what they do?
Will God send someone to hell for eat the Lord’s Supper more than once a week? God can do whatever he wants…He is God after all. And no one can argue with his decision because he always acts justly.