10 Creative Ways to Celebrate the Lord's Supper

Written by Let's Worship Magazine Staff

A regular observance of the bread and cup can become commonplace. Here are some creative suggestions, free worship service downloads, sermon ideas, and free model sermons for helping your people celebrate the Lord's Supper.

Come to the Lord's Table

10 Creative Suggestions with Drama Downloads:

1. Utilize all five senses

• Smell (incense)
• Sight (banner)
• Hearing (anvil)
• Touch (bread)
• Taste (cup)

Note: Experience His Passion is a free Lord's Supper worship service which includes the use of all five senses (This is a PDF document you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print this file).

Other free worship readings include the following:

• The Final Hours of the Christ
• The Passion Script
• A Living Lord's Supper: A script for a dramatic experience of Communion

2. Serve the Lord's Supper in family groups.

3. Emphasize Old Testament symbolism.

• Passover symbolism (The bread was striped and pierced, blood of the lamb on the doorposts, and the bitter herbs symbolic of bondage). Helpful article: Don't Pass Over the Passover
• Place the colors of a Jewish tabernacle on the pulpit and explain their significance.

4. Project images or videos while passing the elements.

5. Use pageant sets and drama to portray the event visually. 

Have servers dress up as disciples, then allow people in modern clothes to take the place of the servers at the table with the actor playing the part of Jesus.

6. Emphasize "clean hands and a pure heart" (Psalm 51).

Wash hands before serving and before partaking.

7. Ask deacons to select others to distribute the elements.

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8. Use pita bread (Let each person tear or break off his or her portion).

9. Show video clips of Christ's suffering and death while serving.

10. Use banners as the center of the Lord's Supper.

Ask members to take the Lord's Supper at the banner that has the most meaning for them, because of what they have experienced during the year.

5 Sermon Ideas and Themes:

1. Suggested sermon title: "I Remember, Do You?"

2. Focus on personal encounters and commitments reinforced by the Lord's Supper.

• Focus on the death of Christ and dying to self.
• Focus on Jesus' suffering (He suffered, therefore, we are to be willing to suffer).
• Focus on taking up the cross or giving up your will (Jesus gave up His, why do we not want to give up our wills?).

3. Add the washing of feet as the third aspect of the communion service.

Jesus washes the disciples' feet. Then they go and serve the congregation. Use a clay basin and symbolically, not literally, wash feet. Clean feet (daily cleansing from sin) is preparation for being at the Lord's table (John 13). Use the idea of "feet" to present the message for the Lord's Supper.

• Dirty feet
• Tired feet
• Bruised feet
• Feet that betray Him
• Feet that deny Him
• Feet that run in a moment of crisis
• Feet that run to follow Him
• Feet that bring good news

4. Invitation theme.

"By invitation only: we have been invited to come into fellowship with Christ."

5. Service theme: Heritage. How do others remember? Emphasize that we are joining with a great heritage of people needed to carry on so others can know in the future.

5 Free Lord's Supper Sermons from Proclaim Online:

• A Call to Remember: The Lord’s Supper (Luke 22:14-20)
  
  
• The Lord's Supper (1 Corinthians 10 & 11) Sermons from the Baptist Faith and Message
  
  
• It Took Just One - Once (Hebrews 9:26)
  
  
• When Darkness Reigns (Luke 22:47-53)
  
  
• How to Connect With God's Family