September 8, 2017
We pray for daily bread, and we eat daily meals. Yet, some restrict the Lord’s Supper—the meal where we eat at the table of the Lord—to only and exclusively the first day of the week, Sunday. This restriction is a rather unique dimension of Churches of Christ. Is eating with Jesus (Matthew 26:29) restricted to […]
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Uncategorized | Tagged: Acts 20:7-12, Fellowship Offerings, Frequency, Israel, Lord's Day, Lord's Supper, Lord's Table, Sunday, Table of the Lord |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 27, 2013
During the summer of 1858 Tolbert Fanning, President of Franklin College and a leader in Middle Tennessee for over twenty-five years, toured the congregations surrounding Nashville. He recounts this tour in the September 1858 edition of the Gospel Advocate (“Prospects in Middle Tennessee,” pp. 257-263). He visited Hartsville and Bledsoe’s Creek congregations in Sumner county; Lebanon […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Acts of Worship, Assembly, Churches of Christ, Liturgy, Lord's Day, Nashville, Sunday, Tennessee, Tolbert Fanning |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
February 25, 2011
John T. Lewis (1876-1967), a 1906 graduate of the Nashville Bible School and largely responsible for church planting in Birmingham, Alabama, in the first half of the 20th century, penned an interesting tract in 1952 entitled “The Lord’s Supper and the Lord’s Day.” It reflects on the correlation of the Lord’s Supper and the Lord’s […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Eucharist, First day of the Week, John T. Lewis, Lord's Day, Lord's Supper, Stone-Campbell, Sunday, Table |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 26, 2009
On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul was holding a discussion with them; since he intended to leave the next day, he continued speaking until midnight. There were many lamps in the room upstairs where we were meeting. A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the […]
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Biblical Texts, Theology | Tagged: Acts 20, Assembly, Bible-Acts, Bible-Luke, Breaking Bread, Communion, First day of the Week, Lord's Supper, Luke 24, Sunday, Table |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks