Do We Have to Use Bread and Wine to Take Communion?

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Word and Sacrament

Do We Have to Use Bread and Wine to Take Communion?

25 min

Watch On

Word and Sacrament

Do We Have to Use Bread and Wine to Take Communion?

25 min

Episode 873 Show Notes

From the Show

Why does Jesus institute the Lord’s Supper with wine? Throughout the Gospels, wine depicts the blood of Jesus, but it is also the drink of God’s kingdom.

–Adriel Sanchez

Do We Have to Use Bread and Wine to Take Communion?

Questions in this Episode

  1. Someone called in recently and said that they saw Jesus in person. But Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit upon his ascension. Why would he be here and make appearances to others if he has already sent us the Holy Spirit?
  2. Starting in the pandemic I saw a lot of people watch church virtually and then some of them try to take communion at home with things other than bread and wine. Does it matter what things we use when we take communion?
  3. Growing up, my mother-in-law gave my wife and her sister to a man and he abused them. My wife has gotten saved and found significant healing, but her sister is still suffering immensely from her time with him. How can we minister to her?
  4. In Genesis 1, what is being discussed when it talks about God separating the waters and making a firmament?
  5. If Jesus had to die to atone for sin, why was it a sin for men to crucify him?

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Adriel Sanchez is the pastor of North Park Presbyterian Church (PCA) in San Diego, CA. He received his theological training from Westminster Seminary California and serves as host of Core Christianity. Adriel is the author of Praying with Jesus and, most recently, Why We Worship: Experiencing Heaven on Earth at Church. He and his wife, Ysabel, have six children.

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