Grant
Puritan Board Graduate
As my family is working through Exodus, we hit the initiation of The Passover Feast in Exodus 12. In explaining and discussing with my family, I also brought up discussion of the Lord’s Supper. As a family, we are also reading through Van Dixhoorn’s Confessing the Faith, which brought us to the Lord’s Supper Chapter of the Confession. It dawned on me tonight that actually “breaking bread“ seem’s to be required by a Westminster Confession understanding of what a minister should be doing among other items in a series. Like the specific instructions given in Passover, it is clear our Lord cares about the details. Related, it seems the “breaking of bread” is indeed required by Christ.
What are your thoughts? Does Westminster require “bread breaking”? Should Session’s and Ministers subscribing to Westminster take exception for excluding bread breaking?
Westminster Chapter 29, Paragraph 3:
Would the confession here not also require a common cup, or at least a single cup as symbol to be present?
What are your thoughts? Does Westminster require “bread breaking”? Should Session’s and Ministers subscribing to Westminster take exception for excluding bread breaking?
Westminster Chapter 29, Paragraph 3:
3. The Lord Jesus hath, in this ordinance, appointed his ministers to declare his word of institution to the people, to pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to an holy use; and to take and break the bread, to take the cup, and (they communicating also themselves) to give both to the communicants;a but to none who are not then present in the congregation.b
a. Mat 26:26-28 and Mark 14:22-24 and Luke 22:19-20 with 1 Cor 11:23-27. • b. Acts 20:7; 1 Cor 11:20.
Would the confession here not also require a common cup, or at least a single cup as symbol to be present?
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