Why We Share the Lord’s Supper Each Week

Why We Share the Lord’s Supper Each Week

If you have been worshiping with us recently, you may have noticed something both simple and significant: we now celebrate the Lord’s Supper every week. For some, this feels natural and familiar. For others, it may feel new, or at least newly noticeable. Changes like this naturally invite questions. It is good and healthy for a church to ask not only what we do in worship, but why we do it.

This shift is not driven by novelty, trend, or short-term amnesia and chronological snobbery. It reflects a growing conviction that the Lord’s Supper is one of Christ’s most gracious gifts to his church, a gift meant not for occasional use, but for the regular nourishment of God’s people. Scripture does not command a specific frequency for Communion, but it does give us a clear picture of how God forms his people over time. What we do repeatedly shapes what we love, what we expect, and what we trust.

Below are four reasons why we believe sharing the Lord’s Supper each week will, over time, help form us faithfully and fruitfully as a church.

1. Weekly Communion Forms Us to Live by Grace, Not Performance

Many Christians were taught, often unintentionally, to associate the Lord’s Supper with moments of heightened spiritual seriousness. Because Communion was infrequent, it felt especially weighty, something to approach only after careful self-examination, emotional readiness, or a particularly strong week of faithfulness. There is real goodness in reverence at the Table, and nothing about weekly Communion is meant to flatten that seriousness.

At the same time, habits teach theology. When Communion is rare, it can quietly train us to think of grace as occasional and nourishment as something we receive only when we feel prepared. Over time, this can shape us to relate to God primarily through self-assessment: Am I worthy this week? Have I done enough to come confidently?

Scripture, however, presents the Lord’s Supper not as a reward for spiritual achievement, but as sustenance for ordinary disciples. Jesus gives bread and wine to men who are confused, fearful, and soon to fail him. He does not wait for clarity, courage, or consistency. He feeds them because they are weak and because he is faithful.

Weekly Communion gently retrains us. It teaches us that grace is not the exception but the pattern of the Christian life. We come again and again not because our performance has improved, but because Christ remains generous. Over years, this rhythm forms assurance, steadiness, and humility. We learn to live not by constant spiritual intensity, but by ongoing dependence on a faithful Savior.

2. God Uses Ordinary, Repeated Gifts to Do Extraordinary Work

Christians throughout history have described practices like preaching, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper as “means of grace.” While that phrase may sound technical, the idea behind it is simple: God delights to use ordinary, visible, and repeated gifts to communicate his saving kindness to his people.

When the Word is preached, God speaks through human voices. When we come to the Table, God reassures us through bread and cup; things we can see, touch, taste, and share. The power is not found in the elements themselves, nor in our emotions or understanding, but in the promise of Christ, who meets his people by his Spirit.

Weekly Communion acknowledges something deeply human about us: we are forgetful, distracted, and prone to drift. We do not only need new information; we need regular reassurance. In Scripture, repetition is not a sign of weakness in God’s communication, but a mark of his patience. He does not tire of reminding his people of what is true, and we never outgrow our need to receive the gospel.

Seen this way, frequency is not excess but wisdom. Just as daily bread is better than occasional feasts for sustaining life, steady spiritual nourishment is wiser than sporadic intensity. By placing the Table before us each Lord’s Day, we confess together that God knows what we need and supplies it faithfully.

3. The Table Nourishes Our Union with Christ and Our Life Together

The Lord’s Supper is never meant to be a private spiritual exercise. It is a family meal. Scripture consistently connects the Table to both our fellowship with Christ and our fellowship with one another.

In Communion, we do more than remember Christ in our minds. By the work of the Holy Spirit, we truly commune with him. This does not mean that Christ is re-sacrificed or that the elements themselves change in substance. Rather, as we eat and drink in faith, Christ genuinely nourishes us with himself, applying the benefits of his finished work to us in a way suited to embodied creatures.

This weekly meal also completes the rhythm of Christian worship. Each Lord’s Day, Christ addresses us through his Word, declaring promises, confronting sin, and announcing grace. At the Table, those same promises are sealed to us visibly and tangibly. The gospel we hear is the gospel we taste. Word and Table together shape a people who receive rather than achieve.

At the same time, the Supper binds us to one another. We come not as isolated individuals, but as one body; different stories, different struggles, one shared mercy. Weekly Communion forms habits of repentance and reconciliation, humility and hope. It teaches us that the Christian life is sustained not by solitary effort, but by shared dependence on Christ and shared participation in his grace.

4. This Practice Roots Us in the Deep Wisdom of the Church

Far from being an innovation, weekly Communion reflects the practice of much of the historic church. From the early centuries of Christianity through the Reformation and beyond, many congregations understood the Lord’s Day gathering to be naturally centered on Word and Table together.

Over time, especially in modern evangelical life, Communion often became less frequent, not because Scripture required it, but because of practical concerns, cultural habits, or pastoral caution. Many of these decisions were made with sincere intentions. Our desire is not to overly criticize the recent past, but to humbly learn from the broader wisdom of the church and to recover practices that have long served God’s people well.

By celebrating the Lord’s Supper each week, we are not claiming spiritual superiority or rediscovering a forgotten command. We are receiving, with gratitude and humility, a practice that Christians across centuries have found to be a steady source of spiritual health, comfort, and joy.

A Table of Welcome, Joy, and Rest

Finally, it is important to say this plainly: weekly Communion is meant to increase our joy, not our anxiety.

The Table is not for the sinless, but for sinners who trust a sinless Savior. It is not a moment for morbid introspection, but for honest repentance and grateful faith. Each week, Christ welcomes his people again, reminding us that our standing with God rests not on our performance, but on his finished work.

This practice may feel ordinary at first, and that is not a failure. Formation happens quietly and slowly. Over months and years, the steady rhythm of Word and Table shapes our instincts, our prayers, and our expectations. The Supper becomes part of the church’s shared memory and part of the believer’s spiritual muscle memory.

As we continue this practice together, our prayer is that the Lord’s Supper would become a deep and settled joy; a weekly proclamation that Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. We come to the Table not because we have earned a place, but because Jesus has set one for us. And he delights to feed his people.