Christian Churches of God
No. 103B
Procedures for the Lord’s
Supper
How to partake of the Lord’s Supper in the absence of an Elder
(Edition 2.0 19960323-19991008-20070919)
This paper provides information for individuals who are unable to attend with a group
during Passover.
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Procedures for the Lord’s Supper
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Procedures for the Lord’s Supper
If you are eligible to take the Lord’s Supper,
but you are unable to meet at a designated
locality with one of God’s churches at the
prescribed time, you may observe it alone or
with a group of other eligible members.
Prepare for the Lord’s Supper by purchasing
Jewish Matzoth or Matzos at any grocery store
or bake unleavened bread for yourself. This is
made with no yeast, soda, baking powder or
any other leavening agent. Rye-Vita or similar
unleavened biscuits may also be used.
Purchase a bottle of red wine, preferably of
good quality. Cabernet Sauvignon or Shiraz is
ideal. Do not use wines fortified with grape
spirit etc., such as sherry or port.
Grape juice was never used at the Passover
season by any Jews or Israel, including Christ,
the Apostles or the New Testament Church.
The teaching of the sects of recent centuries is
a perversion of the truth. Grape juice could
not be preserved under those conditions. It is
dead, whereas wine has life and symbolises
the living blood of Jesus Christ as a man.
Preparing for the Lord’s Supper Service:
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Prepare the room set aside for the
observance by making it neat and
clean.
To Be Much Observed) in accordance with
Deuteronomy 16:6-7 (see the paper The Night
to be Much Observed (No. 101). On the
morning of the first Holy Day you may return
to your dwellings. Those too ill to move may
remain in their own home.
The service is to be conducted in due
solemnity. However, it is not a service that
forbids speech to one another. The head of the
family, or nominated person for a larger
gathering, is to conduct the service. The
Lord’s Supper service is available on tape and
the service is printed in the paper The Lord's
Supper (No. 103), which should be followed
in the conduct of the service.
This is a very important memorial service of
the Last Supper of our Lord Jesus Christ
before he was sacrificed as the Passover Lamb
for the next evening – the Night To Be Much
Observed – which is the second night of the
Passover season (Ex. 12:8-11; Deut. 16:6-7).
This is the Passover proper of the Exodus and
the night that Israel was spared by the
destroying angel.
None of the bread and wine used in the
service of the first evening, or the meal of the
second evening, can be left until the morning
of the first Holy Day. It must be destroyed.
How to proceed without Paper No. 103:
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Have small amounts of the bread and
wine set aside on a tray, under a clean
white serviette or napkin. Use a small
glass per person with a small amount
in each glass.
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Set aside clean basins and towels for
the foot-washing.
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Observe the service sometime after
dark, preferably not too late.
The Lord’s Supper should not be eaten inside
your dwellings. It should be taken outside
your dwellings or usual place of abode, as is
the next evening, the Passover (or the Night
If the study paper is not available to read from,
the head of the service should read the
appropriate Scriptures from the Bible. That
person should read Luke 22:7-8,14-15; then
Matthew 26:17,26-30; then proceed to
1Corinthians 11:23-30 and then to John 13:117.
The foot-washing should then be conducted if
two or more baptised people are present.
Where multiple people are present they should
be divided according to sex and placed apart.
Individuals, of course, are not concerned with
this matter. On completion, the room should
be reorganised.
Procedures for the Lord’s Supper
The bread and wine are then exposed, and the
person conducting the service is to give thanks
and ask the blessing on the bread, as a symbol
of the body of Jesus Christ, breaking it into
pieces and having it distributed to those
present. Each then consumes the bread in
silent contemplation.
The person conducting the service then prays
over the wine, giving thanks and asking for it
to be blessed as a sacred symbol of the blood
of Jesus Christ, which was shed for the
remission of our sins. The wine is then passed
in the individual glasses and drunk as a
symbol of the renewal of the acceptance of the
blood of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin.
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The glasses and the unused bread are then
replaced on the tray and table and re-covered
with the serviette or napkin.
The person conducting the service should then
read aloud portions from John 13:18 to John
17:26. For, after these words were uttered by
Christ, he then left for the garden and was
seized to be taken and crucified. The person
conducting the service may read passages of
the sections if that is desired. If there are
enough present a hymn should be sung.
The individuals may then disperse to their
temporary accommodation.
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