What is the frequency of Holy Communion according to the Bible?

Answer 1

What we call Holy Communion today, is called "the Lord's Supper" in the Bible, in 1Corinthians, ch. 11, and there are no instructions there for the frequency of sharing it.

However, when the church started in Jerusalem after the Day of Pentecost, the believers met together daily, and later when the Gentiles were converted throughout Asia, they used to meet on the first day of the week to break bread, (Acts.20.7 & 1Cor.16.2)

Jesus simply said: "This do in remembrance of me." Luke 22:19. Paul instructs in this regard: "For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come." 1 Corinthians 11:26.

Answer:

According to the Bible... Jesus instituted the "communion"... the symbolic partaking of body and blood of the sacrificial lamb on that "PASSOVER." On that last Passover Jesus observed with His disciples, we have recorded in the Bible a "changing of the guard," so to speak.

Jesus passionately desired to observe that final Passover with them, because He had this "bread and wine" ceremony to establish among His brothers in faith for a remembrance of what would happen before the day was out.

During that observance... God changed the way the Passover memorial was to be observed from then on -- not by sacrificing lambs... but by "remembering Christ's selfless sacrifice for His creation" in the "bread and wine" [body and blood] symbols.

"...THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME..." (Luke 22:19).

That night, Jesus was arrested and before the end of the day, fulfilled that prophecy that is the Passover memorial: "...for even Christ OUR PASSOVER is sacrificed for us..." (I Cor.5:7).

Most of modern professing Christianity, however, doesn't recognize God's Holy Day feasts commanded in the Bible, calling them "Jewish"... although the Bible calls them: "...the feasts of the LORD..." (Lev.23:44) -- who, it turns out, is Jesus Christ:

"...all things were made by Him [the universe, man, the Sabbath, the annual Holy Day feasts, etc.]; and without Him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1:3)

And in their ignorance of the Passover memorial and Jesus' changing how the Passover was to be observed until He returns... modern professing Christianity misinterprets the words:

"...for as oft as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till He come..." (I Cor.11:26).

And take it to mean that they can perform the "communion" as many times as they want throughout the year... instead of observing the Passover "annually" as Jesus commanded His disciples that Passover night. And which is clearly commanded in the Bible.

The Passover is a "remembrance"... a solemn, commanded "memorial," that reminds us that Jesus Christ is the Passover Lamb of God. It's like the "Fourth of July," "Memorial Day," "Flag Day," "Veteran's Day," memorials, all, which are observed "once a year" on a preset date.

Therefore, ON the Passover with the biblically "changed" [by Christ] way it is to be observed: the "communion" -- is how often it should be observed - once a year.

That's how often this bread should be eaten, and this cup drunk... because it was on that Passover of remembrance... before the end of that day... that Jesus died for us.

God's seven annual Holy Day feasts reveal God's plan for man and his salvation. The first commanded feast isn't a feast... but the Passover... a MEMORIAL. With Jesus' sacrifice on that Passover... THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PLAN OF GOD WAS FULFILLED!

"It is finished," Jesus said [John 19:30]. He didn't mean the entire plan of God was finished, as most men think. He meant that very first, most difficult and terrifying phase - the dreaded, terrifying, agonizing... and selfless... shedding of His DIVINE BLOOD for the sake of His creation.

And by the day of Pentecost, the next two commanded holy "spring feasts" of God began to be fulfilled, also.

The Days of Unleavened Bread, when the final books of the Bible began to be written. Spiritually illuminating books that shed spiritual light on the Old Testament... the light of the understanding of Jesus Christ. The unleavened Bread of God's Word can be understood today, because Jesus is our Passover sacrificed for us.

Pentecost saw the beginnings of the fulfillment of the giving of God's Holy Spirit to faithful men.

Since then, men have been receiving God's Spirit and reading and understanding God's Truth. It's an ongoing fulfillment that shall continue until Jesus returns to fulfill the last four commanded "fall harvest" feasts of God:

* The Feast of Trumpets: where Jesus returns at "the last trump."

* The Day of Atonement: when Jesus will place all the sins of the world He's borne for us since that Passover... and place them squarely on the head of Satan the Devil, and banish him for a thousand years from bothering mankind.

* The Feast of Tabernacles: the thousand year rule of Christ's Kingdom on earth.

* The Last Great Day: Judgment Day.

These last four have not been fulfilled yet, and God's plan is NOT FINISHED!

But, the "communion" on Passover, annually, reminds us that the fulfillment of God's plan is in the works... and it's going to happen.

The first three fulfillments of God's annual Holy Day feasts took place AT THE VERY TIMES PRESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE... the times that God chose. Not randomly.

The last four feasts will also be fulfilled at the exact times the Bible some fall season in the future. We just don't know which YEAR it will happen.

The Passover with the Christ-commanded "bread and wine" symbols is the "first phase" of the fulfillment of God's plan.

It "shows the Lord's death TILL HE COMES BACK." It's not a matter of observing the "communion" as often as we want to... but observing it as the Bible commands us to.

Annually... on the Passover... when it happened.