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The Lord’s Supper: Two Tables, One Family

The Lord’s Supper: Two Tables, One Family

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What is the Lord’s Supper really for? In this episode, Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell explore 1 Corinthians 10–11 and discover that Communion is much more than a ritual—and much less mysterious than some traditions have made it. Paul connects the Lord’s Table with koinonia: participation, fellowship, and sharing. Drawing on the Old Testament peace offering, the episode explores the Lord’s Supper as a covenant meal celebrating a finished redemption, not a mechanism that creates forgiveness or adds to Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice. But Paul also introduces a sobering contrast: the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. What makes these tables incompatible? What does sacrificial fellowship mean in the biblical worldview? And why does Paul distinguish between eating meat in a pagan temple and buying that same meat in the marketplace? The conversation then moves into the difficult passages of 1 Corinthians 11—“an unworthy manner,” “discerning the body,” and the warning that some were weak, ill, and had died. Rather than treating Communion as a moment of private spiritual panic, Bruce and Charles examine Paul's immediate context: a divided church where wealthy believers were eating and drinking while poorer believers were left hungry and humiliated. The Lord's Table was supposed to reveal that they belonged to one another. Finally, the episode applies Communion through the lens of Fivefold ministry: Apostolic: Where are we going? Prophetic: Where have we drifted? Pastoral: Who needs care? Teaching: What does this mean? Evangelistic: Who isn't here yet? Five gifts. Five questions. One Table. One Lord. One Body. One mission. And the challenge for every believer is simple: Am I living like someone who belongs to Jesus—and therefore belongs to His people? Because the Cross says, “You belong to Christ.” And the Table says, “You belong with His people.”
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