{"id":44929,"date":"2022-10-01T01:35:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/one-cup-communion-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:35:04","slug":"one-cup-communion-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/one-cup-communion-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"One Cup Communion? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;I recently learned that one of my cousins, in another state, has been attending a local church where they share a common cup during the communion portion of the service. Can you please help me find any Scripture that speaks to this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The text in Matthew 26:27-ASV reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>And he took a cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it&#8230;.<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no Scripture that teaches that the church must use only one cup during the serving of the Lord&#8217;s Supper. Some brethren have misinterpreted the above text.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the word &#8220;cup&#8221; in this verse is a form of a figure of speech known as metonymy, i.e., &#8220;when one thing is put for another.&#8221; The container is made to stand for or represent its contents.<\/p>\n<p>The following article by a faithful preacher of the gospel further addresses this issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are Multiple &#8220;Containers&#8221; Prohibited in the Distribution of the Lord&#8217;s Supper?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;I recently learned that one of my cousins, in another state, has been attending a local church where they share a common cup during the communion portion of the service. Can you please help me find any Scripture that speaks to this?&#8221; The text in Matthew 26:27-ASV reads: &#8220;And he took a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/one-cup-communion-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Cup Communion? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}