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QUESTION: What is the specific time to partake of the Lord’s Supper?

ANSWER: Acts 20:7 states very clearly that the disciples came together “upon the first day of the week” to break bread. A day encompasses twenty-four hours. Therefore, partaking of the Lord’s Supper anytime during those twenty-four hours would not violate this or any other passage of scripture! As well, in Acts 20:7-8, we are not told at what time on the first day of the week this particular worship service began. We only know that Paul continued his speech until midnight. The service could have encompassed both daytime and nighttime hours or it could have included only nighttime hours. Precisely when, during the worship service, they partook of the Lord’s Supper, we are not told. It could have been at the beginning, the middle, or the end of the service. Apparently, the precise hour was not significant. Otherwise, the Holy Spirit would have so specified. He did specify the “first day of the week.” We must leave it there, being careful not to bind things on ourselves and others what the Holy Spirit has not bound in the New Testament!


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