What Is Communion and What Does It Mean?
"And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, 'This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.'" Luke 22:19 What is communion and what does it mean? Short answer. Communion, also called the Lord's Supper or the Eucharist, is the meal Jesus gave his followers the night before he died, using bread and wine to represent his body and blood given for us (Luke 22:19-20). Christians take it to remember his death, to proclaim it until he returns (1 Corinthians 11:26), and to share, in some real way, in Christ himself and in each other (1 Corinthians 10:16-17). Exactly how Christ is present in it is where believers have argued for centuries. What isn't disputed is what it points to: a body broken and blood poured out, for you. Photo by Philipp Deus on Pexels It began with Jesus himself, at a table, on the worst night of his life Communion isn't a tradition the church invented later and read ba...