7936 love feast
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The first Christians generally celebrated the Lord's Supper with the accompaniment of a meal, called the “agape” or “love feast”.

OT antecedents of the love feast

The Passover meal

See also Exodus 12:3-11,15-16; Matthew 26:17-18 pp Mark 14:12-15 pp Luke 22:7-12; 1 Corinthians 11:23-25

Other festive occasions

Deuteronomy 12:7; Nehemiah 8:10

The NT practice of the love feast

It was linked with the Lord's Supper

Acts 2:46 See also Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

The name “love feasts”

Jude 12 See also 2 Peter 2:13 fn; John 13:2,34 It was at the Last Supper that Jesus Christ gave his new commandment to his disciples to love one another as he had loved them.

The charitable distribution of food

Acts 6:1

Abuses of the love feast

Selfishness, indulgence and ostentation

1 Corinthians 11:20-22 See also 1 Corinthians 11:33-34

Licentiousness

2 Peter 2:13

Ungodly participants, especially false teachers

Jude 4,12 See also 2 Peter 2:1,13

The heavenly love feast

Foretold by Jesus Christ

Matthew 26:29 pp Mark 14:25

The marriage supper of the Lamb

Revelation 19:9 See also Isaiah 25:6; Matthew 22:2-14 The parable of the marriage supper indicates the prerequisites for attendance at the supper.

See also

4435  drinking
4438  eating
5385  leisure
5946  sensitivity
7354  feasts and festivals
7406  Passover
7921  fellowship
7933  Lord's Supper
8821  self-indulgence



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