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The Lord's Supper is one of two ordinances that Jesus instituted for his church to observe

until his second coming.

The other ordinance is baptism.

And both of these signs, baptism and communion, exhibit the gospel and convey God's grace

to God's people by the power of the Holy Spirit.

When Jesus instituted communion,

he did it in the presence of 12 disciples with the elements of bread and the fruit of the vine,

which would have been wine. Here's Matthew's account of the institution of the Lord's Supper.

Now, as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it, broke it and gave it to the disciples

and said, take eat, this is and gave it to the disciples and said,

take eat, this is my body. And he took a cup. And when he had given thanks, he gave it to them saying,

drink of it all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness

of sins. I tell you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you

in my father's kingdom. But how is it that many churches replaced wine with grape juice when they

administer the Lord's supper? Let's go through some of the history. So the universal practice of Christians up until the 19th century was to use fermented grape juice or wine in the administration of the Lord's Supper.

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