What is the Lord’s Supper?
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 11:23-34
Jesus never asked His disciples to remember His birth. But He did instruct them to remember His death and resurrection. He gave the church two visible symbols (called ''ordinances'') as reminders of His death. These two ordinances are: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper is an object lesson that represents a great spiritual truth for believers.
When I was a child growing up in church, I welcomed the times we took the Lord's Supper in my little church back in Kentucky. I did not welcome it because I was a super-spiritual teenager. I welcomed it because it cut-down on the amount of sermon from our pastor. I greatly underestimated the importance of this memorial meal.
The Lord's Supper is so significant that when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin because the first people in history to walk on the Moon, Aldrin celebrated the auspicious occasions by taking the Lord's Supper. In 1969, Edwin Eugene ''Buzz'' Aldrin Jr. was an elder at Webster Presbyterian Church, a congregation just outside of Houston, Texas. He told the lead pastor of his church, Dean Woodruff, that he had ''been struggling to find the right symbol for the first lunar landing.'' Aldrin got the idea for the communion ceremony while at Cape Kennedy working with the ''sophisticated tools of the space effort.'' ''I wondered if it might be possible to take communion on the moon, symbolizing the thought that God was revealing himself there too, as man reached out into the universe. For there are many of us in the NASA program who do trust that what we are doing is part of God's eternal plan for man,'' Aldrin said.
Aldrin got busy with preparation ahead of the launch. The communion bread was carried in a plastic packet, the way regular inflight food is wrapped. Because there was just enough gravity on the moon for liquid to pour, Aldrin wanted to pour the wine into a chalice from his church. The pastor had pres ...
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 11:23-34
Jesus never asked His disciples to remember His birth. But He did instruct them to remember His death and resurrection. He gave the church two visible symbols (called ''ordinances'') as reminders of His death. These two ordinances are: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper is an object lesson that represents a great spiritual truth for believers.
When I was a child growing up in church, I welcomed the times we took the Lord's Supper in my little church back in Kentucky. I did not welcome it because I was a super-spiritual teenager. I welcomed it because it cut-down on the amount of sermon from our pastor. I greatly underestimated the importance of this memorial meal.
The Lord's Supper is so significant that when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin because the first people in history to walk on the Moon, Aldrin celebrated the auspicious occasions by taking the Lord's Supper. In 1969, Edwin Eugene ''Buzz'' Aldrin Jr. was an elder at Webster Presbyterian Church, a congregation just outside of Houston, Texas. He told the lead pastor of his church, Dean Woodruff, that he had ''been struggling to find the right symbol for the first lunar landing.'' Aldrin got the idea for the communion ceremony while at Cape Kennedy working with the ''sophisticated tools of the space effort.'' ''I wondered if it might be possible to take communion on the moon, symbolizing the thought that God was revealing himself there too, as man reached out into the universe. For there are many of us in the NASA program who do trust that what we are doing is part of God's eternal plan for man,'' Aldrin said.
Aldrin got busy with preparation ahead of the launch. The communion bread was carried in a plastic packet, the way regular inflight food is wrapped. Because there was just enough gravity on the moon for liquid to pour, Aldrin wanted to pour the wine into a chalice from his church. The pastor had pres ...
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