What does First B Jackson teach about lord's supper?
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 teaching on the Lord's Supper starts with the problem Paul was addressing in Corinth. Pastor Mark worked through 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 and made clear that Paul had no soft opening for this section. Unlike other passages where Paul offered encouragement alongside correction, here he said flatly that when the Corinthians gathered the way they were gathering, they would have been better off staying home. The wealthier members were arriving early, eating and drinking their fill, and the working poor were showing up to nothing. The Lord's Supper was meant to be the one place where every social distinction collapses, and the Corinthians had turned it into a mirror of the divisions that already existed outside the church.
Pastor Ray, in a message covering the final hours before Jesus' arrest, set the Lord's Supper inside its Old Testament frame. He traced the phrase 'blood of the covenant' back to Moses in Exodus 24 and to Zechariah 9:11, and then to Jeremiah 31, where God promised a new covenant written on hearts rather than stone and pledged to remember sin no more. Ray was straightforward that Christians have disagreed for centuries about what 'this is my body' means, and he said he personally holds the memorial view, while noting that the word Eucharist simply means thanksgiving. What all the accounts agree on, he said, is that the cup proclaims the Lord's death until He comes again.
Pastor Mark also pressed the Corinthians' warning forward into the present. The self-examination Paul calls for before taking communion is serious. Eating and drinking without any examination of how you have treated the body of Christ is what Paul means by an unworthy manner. The simplicity of what Jesus actually did at that table, took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and said to do it in remembrance of Him, stands in contrast to how complicated the church has made it across the centuries. At First B, the practice is kept close to that original simplicity, and the Lord's Supper is observed as an act of remembrance and proclamation of His death until He returns.
Taught from 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 · 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 · Jeremiah 31:31-34 · Exodus 24 · Zechariah 9:11
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
24 When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”
25 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- March 17, 2024 Now Is the Time A verse-by-verse walk through the Last Supper, Gethsemane, and Jesus' arrest, tracing how faith, love for one another, and humble surrender to God's will carry us through our own failures.
- November 23, 2014 Called Out and Called Into A Wyoming pastor's rebuke of division at the Lord's Supper, drawn from 1 Corinthians 11, calls every believer to self-examination and unity at the foot of the cross.
Mentioned along the way
- June 8, 2025 More Noble Minded Paul reasons from Scripture in Thessalonica and Berea, showing that Christ had to suffer and rise. A sermon on noble-minded faith, humility, and the gospel's power to persuade.
- March 17, 2024 Your Grief Will Be Turned to Joy In the upper room and Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prepares his disciples for his arrest, showing how love, faith, and community carry us through our darkest hours.
- December 10, 2023 Sunday, December 10th, 2023 - 9am Contemporary Service Second Half - Peace in His Presence Psalm 145 sermon on gratitude, God's faithfulness, and speaking praise even when life is hard, closing with communion and the doxology.
- January 1, 2023 Here Is Water, What Hinders You A New Year's Day sermon on baptism, tracing Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8, followed by an invitation to be baptized and the Lord's Supper.
- January 1, 2023 Here Is Water, What Hinders You A Wyoming congregation rings in the New Year with a baptism, new members, communion, and a sermon on Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8.
- September 7, 2014 Never Hoard the Blessing of God Pastor Ryan preaches on the five purposes of the church, calling First B Jackson to serve one another and their community as living expressions of the body of Christ.
- December 1, 2013 The Shepherd's Dog Missionaries Ken and Lori McCune share how compassion for lost people drives their work among Spanish speakers in Wyoming, drawing from Matthew 9 and John 10.