Lord's Day Devotion - This Do (Acts 20)

 

As a matter of course, they were gathered together on the first day of the week.  Some call this day 'Sunday' while others prefer, "The Lord's Day."

And on this Lord's Day, after the believers 

"had broken bread and eaten," 

Paul

 "conversed with them a long while, until day break, and so departed" (vs 11).

Whether this "breaking of bread" together was just a regular meal together, or they were partaking in "Holy Communion," as some like to call it, it is somewhat ambiguous.  However, I like to think they were remembering what Jesus had done for them, fulfilling yet again, one of Jesus' requests to the disciples that night in the upper room before He had been betrayed.

"Do this in remembrance of Me"

 Jesus had asked to them (Luke 22:19 ESV).

The bread represented His body, 

"which is given for you" 

Jesus told them.  Likewise 

"the cup poured out" 

was the new covenant sealed and promised by Jesus' shed blood (vs 20).

Jesus instituted this at the Passover Meal, in the middle of a meal.  So too, with Paul, and Luke with this company of believers at Troas.

The especial mention that it was

 "on the first day of the week" (v. 7) 

also triggers my mind to believe it was for the remembrance.  Either way, we too, can continue

 "to meet and remember;" 

to keep on, keeping on, gathering together - in person, until He comes.

                                                ~  ERC  March 2026  ~

Based on Acts 20:7 & 11 and Luke 22:14-20 ESV.

Sing, Remember Me, along with Mr. PGSalt.