Title: Last Supper – Lord’s Supper

Author: Christopher Travis Haun for rethinker.net

Draft Date: January 2008

The Lord’s Supper has been for me a key catalyst for rethinking what the church used to be, what it has become, and what it could/should be. If we strip away our Greco-Roman-British-American lenses and look at the Last Supper from the perspective of a first-century Palestinian-Hebrew-Jewish mind, the Lord’s Supper begins to take on profound meanings.

I hope to write more on this topic over time. But for now I only have time to offer this teaser.

The notes I added in the video clip go something like this:

The last supper Yeshua of Nazareth had with his disciples

before he allowed himself to be crucified

was the annual Jewish Passover Seder Meal.

He audaciously re-referenced much of the deep symbolism

of this festival meal to his own self and his own work.

He enjoined his disciples to “do this in remembrance of me.”

The first-century, apostle-led church practiced this modified

Passover meal every week as “the Lord’s Supper.”

There the wealthy and the slaves ate as equals in fellowship

around tables as they broke bread together in thankfulness.

The bread and wine had become potent reminders of the

atonement, redemption, and new covenant relationship

Yeshua accomplished for Jews and non-Jews.

These video clips were taken from the excellent video

The Last Supper

Produced by SET Productions Inc.

and distributed by http://visionvideo.com.

As of January 2008, the video was available in VHS for $4.00 US.

DVD available for $16.00 US.