What does First B Jackson teach about communion meaning?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the clearest teaching on the meaning of communion comes out of Pastor Ray's extended walk through John 6, the chapter that moves from the feeding of the five thousand all the way through Peter's confession. The crowd in that chapter takes Jesus literally when he speaks of giving them his flesh to eat, and Ray used that misunderstanding to name the question the church has wrestled with ever since: what does the bread and the cup actually do, or mean, when believers share them together? His own view, stated plainly, is that communion is a symbol, a picture of taking Christ in and making him part of your life, not a mechanical transfer of grace.
The bread-of-life language in John 6 gave that teaching its shape. Jesus told the crowd that the work God requires is to believe in the one He has sent, and everything else in the chapter turns on that. Communion, in this reading, is a visible return to that same act of belief. The elements do not confer something new so much as they re-present what faith already holds: that Jesus is the bread of life, that taking him in is what sustains the soul, and that the life he offers is not found anywhere else.
Several other Sunday mornings at First B have ended at the communion table, with the Lord's Supper framed as the natural response to whatever the scripture had just demanded of the room. That pattern reflects something consistent in how the church approaches the practice: communion is not separated from the word being preached. It is treated as the moment when the teaching becomes personal, when a person answers for themselves what they are actually trusting in.
Taught from John 6:1-71 · John 6:35 · 1 Corinthians 11:23-25 · John 6:28-29
The passage taught · Deuteronomy 18:15
15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- January 6, 2013 I Am the Bread of Life Pastor Ray teaches John 6, showing how Jesus declared Himself the bread of life and why believing in Him, not following religious checklists, is what God requires.
Mentioned along the way
- May 4, 2025 A Tale of Three Cities Paul and Barnabas pressed on through beatings, rejection and stoning to preach the gospel. A study in Acts 14 on faithful, reliant, unstoppable mission.
- July 21, 2019 Do Not Neglect This Great Salvation Hebrews 2 warns against neglecting salvation through Christ. Pastor explores what that warning means for Christians today and why no other way compares.
- July 21, 2019 How Shall We Escape If We Neglect So Great a Salvation Hebrews 2 warns against neglecting salvation confirmed through Christ, eyewitnesses, and the Spirit. How will we escape if we let it drift away?
- May 6, 2018 Dignified, Blameless, Faithful in All Things Pastor Carl walks through 1 Timothy 3:8-13, exploring what Scripture says about the character God calls deacons and their wives or women to display in serving the church.
- January 7, 2018 Knowing Him, Not Just Knowing About Him Philippians 3:1-11 on the difference between knowing Jesus and merely knowing about Him, and why no religious résumé can substitute for that.
- November 19, 2017 For To Me To Live Is Christ Philippians 1:19-26 explored through one question: how do you honestly finish the sentence "For me, to live is ___, and to die is ___"?
- December 20, 2015 Listen to the Angels Sing A Christmas sermon on Luke 2:14 exploring what the angels really sang, whether God's peace extends to all people, and what we do once that message is delivered.