The First Supper

The meal that Jesus shared with the disciples on the night before his crucifixion has come to be known as the Last Supper. It has been immortalized through Scripture, in art, and in an age of religious illiteracy, is still one of the most known incidents in Jesus' life.  It was here that Christ shared the bread and the cup, here we he set the outlines for what we know as communion, here that the earliest church found the model for living.

But why is it the last supper?  Yes, we know that it was the last one Jesus ate before he was executed.  But it was also the First Supper: it was here that he told us about the bread and the wine and what they symbolize, here that he first gave us this means to memorialize him.  It was here that the Lord's Supper was born.

Tonight, in this church and in many others around the world, we will remember with faith and gratitude the Last Supper, the First Supper, by sharing the Lord's Supper.

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