Adult Sunday School - The Lord's Supper Form and Practice

The Lord’s Supper as the Lord’s Ordinance

About the Lord's table last week. They wouldn't recall the important to some of the things of importance that we Derived from Scripture regarding the Lord's table last week. What were some things of importance?

We had a lot more folks last week. So if you weren't here, I understand. What are some changes that we're doing? Actually. Just like when we examined several months ago and throughout the material the book that we went through that baptism is Is a ordinance that Christ gave and it should be followed exactly the way he gave it why because it's his ordinance.

So sprinkling. Or patal baptism is not a valid baptism because it is something other than what the Lord established. And so the same that same vigor that same Examination we have to also give to the other order ordinance that the Lord gave the church which is the ordinance of the Lord's table the Lord's sacrament and One of the things that we discovered is that?

Lord supper. Developed from the Passover. So again back in Luke 20 chapter 22. Let's look again at verse 7 and then the day of unleavened bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John saying go and prepare this Passover for us so that we may eat it.

What were they observing? Passover what kind of bread would have been used in the Passover? Unleavened what's the name of the festival? That's right, so any Controversy on that issue that what should be used is on leavened bread.

There should be no controversy right because it's pretty clear from Scripture that what was used is Unleavened bread. Right, so no confusion there. That's right. Yes, sir. Yeah, which we briefly touched on last week.

What is kosher wine like made by the feet of rabbis or pastor. Connolly soon he has an answer. Yeah, I mean it's blessed by Jesus. I guess it's kosher so I Don't think so. I mean rabbinic Judaism is post.

You know the structure of the temple. It's Talmudic and so that's hundreds of years after Christ. So this idea of like kosher things would have been you know way past the time of Jesus. Because again, that's that's that's to do with the Talmudic and rabbinic traditions, which is way after the structure of the temple.

Sister churches. Is not exactly the Passover use. Actual wine like non-alcoholic wine, but these actual wine not kosher wine and leavened bread actually like a piece of sour. Yeah, instead of unleavened bread.

Because Christ's our Passover and that's.

Again I think that we have to have a biblical mindset. It's whose ordinance is it? It's not ours, it's the Lord's and it's our job. It's a church's responsibility to rightly administer it, right? And so in order to really administer it you have to do what the Lord says the way he's required in that particular Ordinance that same would be true of baptism.

That's why we would not affirm a sprinkling or pedo baptist Baptism because it is something other than. Similarly to the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons who practice a form of communion. But what they're practicing is something other than.

In particular the Mormon Church. Well, both is theologically. It's virtually it's true for both obviously. But practically for the Mormon Church because the Mormons they when they practice communion weekly.

So they have the right practice that it's a weekly ordinance. But when they practice it they put water instead of wine or grape juice and they use leavened bread like wonder bread. As the as the bread for the congregation that is something other than Communion because it's not the bread that was instituted.

It was not the cup that was instituted. You see Jesus instituted these you know this ordinance and These emblems to be such as they are. For the Jehovah's Witnesses they have the right emblems they have the unleavened bread and they have the wine.

But they have the wrong theology Behind the communion and they only practice it once a year to coincide to Passover. And so you have to do things rightly as the Lord has revealed it in his Word. And so are there churches that do it, you know incorrectly?

Wrongfully administer, I think there are and I think the you know, the Seeker sensitive response would be well to each his own, you know. Everyone kind of is doing the best they can and there's some truth and everyone is Usually trying to do the best that they can with what they have but they usually Exalt preference Over scripture in this matter, and I think that's where the danger is.

That's not to condemn our brothers and sisters who may practice communion a little bit differently. But we shouldn't also be afraid of saying well, no, we want to we just want to be close to the Bible.

We want to do what the Bible says and I don't think we should be ashamed of that. I don't think we should that should be like a like Oh, you're being divisive because you know, we're saying it's this way and they're saying it's that way.

Just I just reading scripture I just want to do what the Bible says and I want that mindset to permeate through every believer here that we just want to Do what God says in regard to? How he has established these ordinances and so that that would be my general responses.

Let's just do things the way God says to do them. And and and if another church does it a different way let that be up to their conscience. I would certainly encourage them to consider these things differently, but I like that's why I like framing it and saying this is the Lord's ordinance not ours.

So. So That's one of the changes and so the reason we're studying this material is because we are producing some changes to the Lord's Supper. This is we have evaluated as a church as pastors our understanding of baptism and administration of baptism, so we're looking at communion and establishing a right More biblical correct understanding of how we Practice that that's a good ordinance.

And so the the goal is to move away from grape juice. And to embrace wine and I know that that's that's that's difficult for a lot of folks. It's difficult for me. I'll share with you. You know, I was a Southern Baptist and a lot of Southern Baptists have an aversion to alcohol, you know, no dancing.

No drinking. No cussing, you know, you know the whole Baptist culture and I had a mentor my mentor. He's still my mentor who he'll he'll swear up and down that it wasn't wine like it was an alcoholic beverage that they were using and.

And I'm like them then why did they get so excited when Jesus turned water to wine? Okay. Why and as we examined last week when we look at the text of 1st Corinthians 11. Why is Paul condemning the Corinthian Church for getting drunk off communion?

I've never gotten buzzed by you know, grape juice drink a lot of Welch's grape juice in my day. Never gotten a buzz off of it. Okay. So clearly what they had in their possession was an alcoholic beverage was an alcoholic wine.

Another reason why I've struggled in this concept as well as because I was an addiction counselor for four years and I was in a context where I had administered alcoholics and I had a lot of alcoholics, you know.

Tell me swear up and down to me that if they had just one drop of alcohol it would relapse. Right, and so to them this was a conscientious issue. Like I can't take wine as communion because then it would you know, it's it's a thing to them.

They saw it as a as a thing of weaker faith, you know, how Paul talks about certain foods in the New Testament. But I think we're if if we're Thinking biblically about these things there's ways that we can address each one of these issues.

Some people might even have dietary restrictions because of alcohol that be able to break down certain alcohol. Well, I Think there's a biblical answer to all this. There are people who struggle, excuse me struggle with eating.

You know gluten materials, right? So unleavened bread still has gluten in it. And What a lot of churches do is they'll have this. I don't even know what it is. It's kind of a monstrosity of a little wafer a little cracker or something.

That's like gluten-free unleavened all these things and It's tastes terrible and i'm not sure if it would really Meet the requirement for it to be unleavened bread. Or to be that which what jesus, you know mentions.

Should we be over accommodating? In that regard, I don't think so a little piece of bread. I do keto ketogenic diet often and. And I still eat the communion right even though it's probably not enough to take kick me out of ketosis.

But I understand there's dietary restrictions. I don't think those are valid enough to change the lord's ordinances so what do we do in a situation where You have an alcoholic and they say I just can't drink alcohol.

I'd say go ahead. You probably are already going over this or went over this last week. It seems it's like what is the basis? Why like why is it specifically? Where does it say why do wine? Yeah, like why why specifically wine?

Unleavened bread outside of just like those were the things that they did. Yeah, so we're in luke chapter 22. Yeah in verse 7 then came the day of unleavened bread. On which the passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

So jesus sent peter and john saying go prepare the passover for us so that we may eat it. Uh, so what's the what's the what's the occurrence? What's the what's the celebration here? It's the path. It's the passover celebration another that that first day of passover.

It's called the feast of unleavened bread. And so what was being eaten? Unleavened bread right so we've got that pretty solidified there. Uh, he says verse 10. He said to them behold when you have entered a city a man carrying a jar of water will meet you follow him into the House that he enters and tell the master of the house.

The teacher says to you where is their guest room where I may eat the passover with my disciples? And he will show you a large upper room furnished prepare it there. And then he went out and found it just as he had told them as they and they prepared the passover.

Okay. And when the hour came he reclined at the table the apostles with him. He said to him I earnestly desire to eat this passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of god.

He took a cup we'd given. Thanks. He said Take this and divide it amongst yourselves. If I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of god comes. We took bread.

He had given. Thanks. He broke it. He gave it to them saying this is my body. Which is given for you do this in remembrance of me and likewise the cup after that eaten. Saying this cup is poured out for you.

Uh is a new covenant in my blood. So there jesus institutes the lord's supper. A couple of notes from that. Yeah. Are you asking what makes this prescriptive and not just descriptive? Yeah. And specifically to the degree of which yes, the bread has to be a certain type of bread.

The wine has to be a certain type. Yeah, I would say if you if you're a student of scripture and you read scripture several times. You'll see that the bible invests a lot of symbolic significance in unloving bread invests a lot of symbolic significance in wine such that.

If those things are used in a symbolic ceremony. That to trade them out is not or to or to alter them is not just to have the same substance. But then slightly different but to have something else. Yeah, right, so that's that's where it's coming from.

It's not just that one incident. It's the fact that all the scripture invests a lot of significance in wine and invests a lot of significance in unloving bread, correct? Correct. And again, it just comes out to me in my mind.

This is the lord's ordinance not ours. He established it. He uh has given us, uh the instructions on how to administer it. And so that's the way it should be done it to me. It's it's pretty clear cut in that regard.

Uh when you consider as well the changes that we spoke of last week. One of the changes that we're introducing to the lord's supper is praying for the emblems or the the bread and the wine. Separately right now.

We pray for it. All all in one prayer and then we pass it. But we will be praying for the elements. Uh. Separately so the bread first that'll be passed. We will consume and then we will pray for the cup the cup will be passed we will consume.

And so that is the order that the lord, uh practice it's the order that paul affirms in first corinthians 11. Um, and if you recall last week's discussion on first corinthians 11, we may have to recap that a little bit.

The criticism there is that they were not rightly administering communion. Everyone was was eating separately. Uh, they're out of sync. They were they were they were showing the dis so the corinthians if you know anything about first corinthians.

This is a church that has a lot of disunity. And one of the first thing that paul tells them is that you must be united. Because you're you're becoming sectarian. So everybody's saying that, you know, I follow paul.

I follow paulist. I follow christ. I follow, you know, they're a very sectarian church. And when it came to communion, they were very disunited. In their administration of community. He condemns them for those two things one that there's their disunity.

Really three things their disunity. Uh looking down upon their poorer brothers who did not have uh, the means to bring their own communion. And then also they were condemned, uh for uh drinking in excess.

And becoming drunk off of the communion wine. Okay, so those are the three main criticisms of paul through the corinthian church in first corinthians chapter 11. And so again establishing that it is actually wine that is used in that setting.

So if so, you have an alcoholic who is participating uh it's very likely based upon the the Behavior of the corinthians that there were some people there that were alcoholics and they were drinking to excess.

I mean it would take quite a bit for quite a bit of shame for you to be in a church context and over drink over consume wine. And and and so that that that speaks to you know tendencies of someone who may have alcoholic traits.

Is the answer to remove the alcohol. Or to rightly disciple a person to have a healthy relationship with the ordinance that god has given the church. Because the hard work the easy work would be just to remove the alcohol.

And substitute it with something else that's called being practical and a lot of churches desire practicality over obedience. I think the hard work is Helping someone discipling someone to have a healthy View of the elements having a healthy view of the wine.

So that they may partake of it joyfully and not to their own detriment. Uh, so those who say that they're alcoholics or they're addicts and if they drink. You know it, you know, they they will relapse they are subscribing to a theory of mental health and addiction.

That denies the power of the new birth and the regenerating work of the holy ghost. If you are truly in christ, you're truly a new creation. You can truly Overcome these things and have a right relationship With it doesn't mean that you will.

That you shouldn't watch yourself. In fact scripture says To watch yourself lest you fall right. But it's again, it's the hard work of discipleship of helping people develop a healthy view. Uh of these things rightly and so that's the hard work of discipleship.

Yeah. So, you know for our church obviously we could do. Follow our convictions. Practice it the way we think about prescribes it. Are these convictions strong enough that if we were to go visit another church?

But for yourself you visit another church and they're serving Love and bread. Yeah, would you? Abstain it's a great question. When I was a jehovah when I was right out of the jehovah's witnesses I went to the memorial service, which is their yearly communion service.

And I thought it'd be a great statement if I partook. And so I partook so when they pass the emblems usually jehovah's witnesses don't participate. Participate because you're not part of the 144 000. So unless they're going to heaven.

Only those people can partake so I thought it'd be a great idea. If I partook because it would make a strong statement that i'm going to heaven. Uh, I don't have that view anymore. I think it's really stupid to do that because this is not the lord's supper.

This is something other than in fact, it's kind of satanic satanic. The way that jehovah's witnesses do it. Now i'm not going to go to the extreme to say that that's how other churches are practicing it.

But if it's something other than the lord's supper I would have a hard time. Um. Accepting that this is the lord's supper. Yeah. Because it's something other than it's like if I go to the church and you know, they're sprinkling uh.

Yeah, it's not baptism. And so it's something other than. If i'm not aware of it, it comes by and I take it. Um. You know to me that's probably a snack not a sacrament. So, um. Yeah, that's that's my my knee jerk reaction.

Emmanuel you got your hand up. Yes. I was wondering If if if more and more pastors go in this direction. And you mentioned like some of the practicalities like dietary and addiction. If someone does relapse will have to be willing to take the plight for that.

Hey, that was he was my congregate. I'm taking responsibility forever. I did lead in this direction. I was a disciple in this direction.

That's a loaded question. Because you're not as a pastor. You're not you're not discipling someone into sin. You're cycling them away from sin. If they sin, you know, it's not necessarily your your fault your responsibility in that regard in that sense.

Every person has the responsibility for god in regards to their sin and so. If I was somehow negligent in that and insensitive, uh, maybe that there could be a case there. Uh. That's not my style. I'm a fairly understanding individual.

It would work of an individual who struggles in that regard and be intentional. Uh in that regard as well. But again, I want us to think brightly about these issues if a person is an alcoholic and they struggle with alcohol.

The issue is not the alcohol the issue is the heart right uh. The sin here doesn't come from the alcohol comes from the individual's heart. So that's what needs to be addressed. Is that person's heart and is it not true that in christ we receive a new heart?

Is it not true that in christ? Uh, we have a a wellspring. Uh of life that helps us, uh, avoid the pitfalls of sin. I think those are all all those things are true. And so god is faithful. He has given us the ability to overcome these things uh.

And so, uh, yeah, I I don't I don't necessarily buy into the premise but uh. But I of course would would would want to shepherd that person rightly and make sure that they have the support they need In order to overcome it and one of the things that it may be is.

Is that maybe they need to take you know, the community cups are not very large, right? They're very small. Maybe it requires that person to take it even less right. And so having certain cups that are filled even less.

And that'd be the cup that'd be appropriate for them to participate of and uh, and and help and building a healthy relationship with wine in this regard is important because. Why is it wine. I think that's part of your question as well earlier it's like why why is it wine why the wine.

Well, pastor connelly said rightly is that in the bible, uh wine is associated with many things. And among the things that one is associated with is is a heart of gladness. It's a cup of gladness it it makes the heart glad, right?

It it makes a person feel Uh good, right? Uh when when when you drink of this cup, there's also bitterness. That is associated with wine as well. I don't like I don't particularly like alcohol of any sort.

I think it's just it's just like bitter that you know, I don't like the way it tastes. Uh, and that's part of it is that this is both a sweet thing and a bitter thing the symbolism that that that that cups, uh represents Of the sweetness of god the bitterness of god through the sufferings of christ and his blood was spilled for us.

All those things have significances. So when we participate in the lord's supper. You notice that it's quiet. We don't have soft music playing in the background. You know, we don't have the preacher saying some words or preaching the word.

Why because we want you to contemplate? The significance of what it is that you're participating in to consider the the bitterness the the brittleness of the bread. That christ was body was broken on our behalf.

It was just dryness sometimes after I eat this I have to like regroup myself before I give the benediction because my throat is just you know dried up from the bread and the wine. Um. And the same is true of the cup that that cup has a powerful significance.

So should we move away from those things and just readjust the lord's supper. To our 21st century sensibilities. I think we're doing a great disservice to the table and to the significance of the. Of what these things represent?

Does that kind of help put things in the right perspective so far? Okay. Another thing I want us to consider. Okay, go ahead. All right, what inspired this Deep dive so to speak was it just like how did we come across this topic?

So probably like Last year around this time. We started considering. Uh. Looking into the lord's ordinances starting with baptism and so a question kind of arose where. Uh, we we we have a confession.

We we have individuals coming into the church. Uh, you know, we were seeing some really phenomenal growth. One of the problems that we have people coming to the church who had a background of being baptized by either a false group or a Uh, you know pato baptist, uh or sprinkling and so the question was okay.

Well, do we have to re-baptize these individuals? Back and forth when we came to a Strong conclusion after studying consideration and we taught that over the summer that we taught it through the book that we just uh did with jameson so, uh.

Then the next one was when we looked at baptism. Should we re-examine the lord's suffering? That's what we did. And so we looked at the two ordinances of of the church and we've come to these conclusions by an analysis of the text and analysis of church history and uh,.

And these are what we're presenting to you now. Because we're going to be practicing communion a little bit differently in the coming weeks and months and years. So Thank you. Yeah.

Okay, just add a little bit to emmanuel's question because um. What emmanuel verbalized was my concern? About you know, what about people who can't metabolize? What about people who have problems? I used to smoke.

I haven't smoked since june 23rd 1994. If I took a puff of a cigarette today, I'd smoke two packs I think. So I I had that same concern that emmanuel did but as we discuss this thing as we've seen how important it is.

To follow the ordinance the way jesus because jesus didn't say do this. Um the way you like. Whenever you like he says as often as you do this and so the pattern is very clear. Is this and the other thing?

As we consider this. Is he says it says in james that god cannot be tempted with evil? And The lord's table is only good. It's only for our good and so in a very strong spiritual sense. We have to understand that as we partake of it rightly God is going to work good through it so.

Like brian was saying there's a matter of trust. I just wanted to acknowledge though that what emmanuel verbalized I kind of stymied things for a couple of weeks on that because I was really concerned about that.

But as we studied and studied it we came to this conclusion that um, brian's gonna give it just so you know that we did. Consider that that was really important.

Yeah, and I think that's a good word from pastor. Yeah, I think it's important you realize our heart behind it. We're not these cold. Legalistic we're gonna do it this way because we really think it should be done this way it's like no, we really approach these things in a way that uh was comprehensive and we we want to make sure that uh, um.

That these concerns that we knew people would bring up would be addressed. So yeah. Why could unfermented wine, uh, so again part of the um. Of the importance here is a symbolism and as I just addressed.

There's a particular symbolism in the wine throughout scripture it's not just a little a little bit of the bubblies where you know, it's it's it is it is a a drink. That has the power to um. To get someone intoxicated.

It's a powerful thing. So, you know again, we want it. We don't want to Move away from the symbolism. Wine is both bitter and sweet. Okay. What does that represent? It's the the sweetness of the fragrant offering that that christ made on the cross but the bitterness because when you look at the the the both the spiritual and historical um Narratives of the cross you see that on one hand how paul describes it paul describes it as a as an Offering as a free christ our passover lamb has been sacrificed that fragrant offering was pleasing to yahweh that aroma that comes from the From the sacrifice is pleasing.

There's a sweetness to it. But there's a bitterness to it. It says in zechariah chapter 12 that there's there's a bitterness and a woe to the crucifixion. Right, so you have these two realities that are at play here with the blood of jesus.

And so it is truly sweet in a bitter thing. And that's why when we consider the lord's table we participate in it. We should consider. Oh, what joy what power is in this cup that it is it symbolizes my everlasting salvation, but whoa because it costs god son his life.

To grant me to give me this what like what beauty is in that and power that's in the spiritual presence of the lord's supper. So I think that it has to be wine one because it's what the scripture says.

And two because it fits the biblical narrative of the symbolism behind the cup and the bread and so We'll go to first corinthians chapter 11. So to make this point a little bit more clearer as well. And so first corinthians chapter 11.

And I want to bring up to you a new thing. So Last week we discussed how the lord's supper one of the things that we're going to do differently is that we're praying for the uh, the emblems separately the bread the cup.

That this bread will be from one uh sheet of of matzah and so the preacher will go and he will Present the bread and of course, we'll have hand sanitizer there to clean our hands. Make sure you don't get the preacher's, uh, sweat and Uh spit on it.

And then we'll break it. Symbolizing what jesus did when he took the bread. He broke it. He blessed it and he then passed it. And so we want to follow the biblical model as closely as we can in order to honor christ.

Along that line. Let's notice what it says here in verse 23. Actually, let's go before that let's go to verse. Let's go to verse 17. But in the following instructions I do not commend you because when you come together it is not for the better, but for the worse.

He's talking about communion here. He's talking about the church service. For in the first place when you come together as a church I hear that there are divisions among you and I believe it in part. For there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

When you come together, it is not the lord's supper that you eat. Okay. That's that was a major point in last week's discussion. Paul's saying hey, you might have all the right elements. You might have the bread.

You might have the wine, but you're not celebrating the lord's supper. You are not celebrating the lord's table. Why? For in eating. Each one goes ahead of his own meal. One goes hungry another gets drunk.

Again, the question is can you get drunk off of grape juice? No, clearly. This is wine that is being spoken of here. What's it what's the interest here in this text as well. Is they were not rightly administering?

Communion therefore paul says it invalidated it. He said this is not communion. This is not the lord's supper. This is something other than why because you're not doing it the way jesus said to do it.

He makes that very clear. He says in verse uh 22. What do you not have houses to eat and drink it or do you despise the church of god and humiliate those who have nothing. What should I say to you? Should I commend you in this?

No, I will not. For and then he gives the right instruction the right administration of communion. This is what he says. For I receive from the lord what I also deliver to you. That the lord jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread.

When he had given thanks he broke it. So here's the right administration. Okay, pray. Taking the elements breaking it passing it. And he says, uh. This is my body which is for you do this in remembrance of me.

The same way also he took the cup after supper saying this cup. Is the new covenant in my blood do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup you proclaim the lord's death until he comes.

So you see a right administration of the ordinance is of utmost importance. Because even though the carinthian church may have had the right Elements they had the wrong administration. And he says because of that you're doing something other than the lord's supper.

So he tells us this is how you have to do it. I received this from the lord. Jesus. This is how you do communion. So then all we've done as pastors. Is we've taken this text to its logical conclusion and we want to do this as it was Laid out for us here in this text.

Does that make sense? Among the changes that we're going to be introducing as well in this regard. Is you notice that we celebrate the lord's supper every sunday morning? Now there might be a little bit of a contradiction there.

Because what did I just call it the lord's? Supper. When is supper usually served? Yeah the evening afternoon. Certainly not the morning and so. By god's grace in providence. We have a evening service or afternoon service.

And so we're going to be changing communion from morning To the afternoon service and that's actually a return to an older practice of this church before many of us were here. Uh, it's my understanding right pastor that the church, uh celebrated the lord's supper in the evening.

Originally, and then it was moved to the mornings um. This is a uh, interesting and significant change one because Again, we want to follow the the biblical order um. Both jesus in luke 22 and paul in first corinthians 11 refers to as the lord is referred to as the lord's supper.

And it was done in the evening right. And so we too want to follow in that sacred Tradition and that sacred ordinance and following this ordinance in the afternoon or evening hours. So that will be done in our second service.

So our first service will no longer be serving communion. That will be reserved for our second service now. There's some what's interesting about that as well is that our evening service tends to be less full.

And it tends to be less full for you know, a couple reasons obviously our our main service is typically in the morning. And that's where the the main preaching is and the the communion and the singing.

But we've also noticed that a lot of guests in that time Uh feel as if they are left out when we serve communion because we have a kind of a fence around the communion table. That's not the reason we're doing this change.

I just want to make that clear. We're not changing it to to better accommodate people's sensibilities. We are changing this again in order to more closely fit the biblical model and precedent that's set before us in scripture.

Uh now it just so happens to be that less guests do participate and come to our second service. So that may be less of an issue as people have wrongfully Taking offense at our position on the lord's table.

And so, uh that may become less of a problem. Of course, we want visitors that are here at 11 to be here also at two o 'clock. And so we we still want to encourage people to be here for that. And so we're we're not we're not trying to Accommodate this issue by changing this time frame.

I just want to make that clear as well. Um. We're not one to shy from a fight so. Any thoughts or questions on that aspect of the change between the lord's supper being in the morning to the evening service now?

What's that? It will start next week. We will treat we will be doing communion differently starting next week. And so as i've mentioned before some of the changes last week and then this week's teaching.

Is that one communion will now be served, uh in the evening. It will be prayed over the elements separately. And the wine and the bread will come from you know one sheet and one vessel. It'll still be poured in the cups.

It'll still be broken in pieces. Uh, but that but we will follow the biblical model that's given to us by christ that this shall come from. You know as a display of the unity of the church. That the one becomes many the many becomes one that we're all participating in the same brawl in the same bread in the same wine.

Representing our unity in christ. Anything you want to add pastors on this? Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't have a particular citation for this but there's a pastor of emmanuel baptist up in sacramento he Has done a lot of study on evening services and afternoon services and uh advocates for they have a bustling evening service.