Breaking of bread is the church’s shared loaf, at table and at the Supper.
They devoted themselves to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
The early church devoted itself to the apostles’ teaching, the fellowship, the breaking of bread, and the prayers. They broke bread in their homes and received their food with glad and generous hearts. At Troas they gathered on the first day of the week to break bread, and Paul talked until midnight. The phrase is a meal. In Corinth the loaf of the Lord’s Supper is also broken: the bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? The church should not flatten every loaf into the Supper, or keep the Supper away from the breaking.
- Emmaus is the risen Jesus known in the breaking of bread. That table is His, before the church’s habit.
- The agape feast is the meal that can be spoiled. The breaking is the act.
- Day by day in homes, and on the first day at Troas. Both are written.
The breaking of bread and the prayers.
In their homes, with glad and generous hearts.
The bread that we break, a participation in the body of Christ.
- Breaking of bread is the church’s shared loaf.
- Acts 2 names it with teaching, fellowship, and prayers.
- Homes held the daily breaking.
- Troas broke bread on the first day of the week.
- The Supper’s loaf is also called the bread we break.
- Not every meal is the Supper. The Supper is a breaking.
- The Act – Breaking the loaf.
- The Homes – Day by day.
- The First Day – Troas.
- The Supper – Participation in the body.
- The Emmaus – Known in the breaking.
- The Heart – Glad and generous.
- Acts 2:42 – “They devoted themselves to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”
- Acts 2:46 – “Breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts.”
- Acts 20:7 – “On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:16 – “The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?”
- 1 Corinthians 11:23-24 – “The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread… and broke it.”
- Luke 24:30-31 – “He took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened.”
- Luke 24:35 – “He was known to them in the breaking of the bread.”
- Acts 20:11 – “When Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them.”
- Matthew 26:26 – “Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:33 – “When you come together to eat, wait for one another.”
They devoted themselves to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
The bread that we break, a participation in the body of Christ.
He was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
The breaking is the church’s loaf. The Supper is that breaking kept as He said. Do not split them into strangers.
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