The teaching in the Bible on the Lord's Supper is far more pointed in the direction of it's purpose of being a
memorial of the death of Christ than to the time when it is to be taken. The points Jesus made in instituting
the communion was that it is taking of His body and blood. (Matthew 26:26-29). In
I Corinthians 10:16 Paul
calls it the communion of the blood of Christ and the communion of the body of Christ.
In I Corinthians 11:17-20 when Paul begins the discussion of the Lord's Supper with the Corinthian church, he
starts by condemning several things they are doing. First he says their coming together wasn't for the better
but for the worse. Second, he says there are divisions among you. Third he says there are factions among
you. Then in verse 20, he gives the fourth condemnation, "Therefore when you come
together in one place, it
is not to eat the Lord's Supper." All of these things were wrong and were affecting their worship to the Lord.
The very fact he condemned the action of not coming together in one place to take of the Lord's Supper,
demands that such is what should have been happening. Since he goes on in this same book to talk about their
coming together on the first day of the week, that would indicate the time to partake of the Lord's Supper is
the first day of the week (I Corinthians 16:1,2). This is the strongest point in Scripture about the time to take
of the communion.
Acts 20:7 is good corroborative evidence. It's greatest strength lies in the fact Paul was in a rush to reach
Jerusalem, yet he waited seven days in Troas to worship with the church there and take the Lord's Supper
with them. This would indicate they only took of the Lord's Supper on Sunday. But you could not prove from
this example they took of the Supper every first day. An example can only demonstrate a right way of doing a
thing. It cannot prove that any other way is wrong, in and of itself. There must be back ground teaching to
give it force to go beyond that.
The very purpose of the Lord's Supper of carrying our mind back to the cross and of causing us to examine
ourselves to see if we are right, and of proclaiming the Lord's death till He comes gives good reason for
taking of the Supper regularly, even every first day of the week.
But to prove beyond the shadow of doubt that one can worship God correctly
without communion each Sunday is not possible.
I hope this is helpful and will be glad to go further on the topic if you desire.
Leon