"PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LORD'S SUPPER" (SELECTED)

       PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LORD"S SUPPER

COMMEMORATIVE:

     "This do in remembrance of me";

         not in order to remember me, but you do it

         because you remember me; and those who

         cherish His memory in their hearts will show

         it in faithfully keeping this scacred feast.

                      We are not to eat the supper simply in memory

                      of His death, as some think, but, "this do in

                      remembrance of me."

          Do it in memory of HIM, remembering His birth, His life, teaching,

          obedience, and good deeds, as well of His death.

         The world builds monuments to her great men of the

           most durable material, and engrave on them

           records of their valorous deeds; but even when

          not destroyed by man, the relentless mill of time

         grinds them to powder.

      But the Lord's Supper, builded of such perishable  material,

        has endured throuhgh the centuries and is as fresh today

        as when builded.

      It is the Lord's monument.

        Let skeptics account for its exixtence.

      It is not enough that they tell us that we keep it because

       of tradition.

     Let them tell us how it began,

    Let them tell us why the first group ate their supper.

    If it celebrates a myth, let them tell us who fooled the first group

      to sitting down to the table to celebrate that which never existed.

   How was such a thing possible?

   Let them tell us why a new word was coined to point out the peculiar

     relation of the supper to the Lord.

   It is called the Kuriakos supper.

  The word,,  not found in Greek literature previous to this, is

    defined,

          "Of or belonging to the Lord; relating to the Lord." -- Thayer