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No he didn’t. The bread and cup are symbols. Jesus literally calls the wine “fruit of the vine” after he says that the cup is the “blood of the covenant poured out for many”. If it somehow turned into actual blood before they drank it, he would have not referenced it as fruit of the vine anymore.

@@Redkurtain Would you rather believe that Jesus turned the bread and the wine into his body and blood by his words “This is my body, this is my blood.”, rather than they are just pretend symbols? Would you rather receive him whole, body and blood, his divinity, his Godship so that you will be his tabernacle. Would you rather believe that in taking and eating his body and drinking his blood, you will have life within you? Would you not do anything to be worthy to receive him, to be in communion with him? I would.

@@domingomelchor4902 sure. I would love it if every time I ate it, it healed all wounds and gave me super powers. But I’m not adding things to the text. I’m doing it “in remembrance of” him, just as He commanded. All that other stuff is no where to be found in the text regarding the Lord’s Supper. I do not receive Jesus by digesting him in my stomach and intestines. Just like literally every feast and celebration in the Bible, the items consumed were symbolic of things God wanted His people to remember and ponder upon. Just like the Passover meal (which Jesus and the disciples were eating), every part of the meal symbolized something important. The Passover lamb symbolized the passing over of death and judgement, the bitter herbs represented slavery, the bread was the bread of affliction they ate in Egypt, the stewed fruits represented the clay bricks they were forced to make. None of these items actually turned into those things. They symbolized them. And it was commanded to them by God that they eat those things in remembrance. And now Jesus was giving them a new covenant in the same mold, “do this in remembrance of me” Or as Paul put it, “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.” -1 Corinthians 11:26 Note that neither Paul, nor Jesus refer to it as blood or flesh except when establishing its significance (symbolism) as part of the new covenant. If it truly changed, why not refer to it in its new state, as flesh and blood, instead of bread and “fruit of the vine”?

If you do a KZfaq search for RC Sproul Sabbath you’ll get two videos by RC that approach teaching on the Sabbath. There are other videos by reform preachers on the Sabbath as well. You might pull up a list of his books and see if any of those cover the Sabbath.

In fact, your pastor is correct in the importance of communion. Paul teaches us in Acts 2:42 that breaking bread is always to be a part of corporate worship. I say corporate worship to mean a Sunday service as an example because that is when we today typically gather together. When you worship alone it is not taught that you must break dread, but I don't find anything in the Bible to say that one couldn't. Acts 2:42, puts both communion and teaching scripture at the same level of importance.

@@shermanben126 ... I very much appreciate your comment(s). .. I have no problem at all with communion every Sunday. In fact, I like it that way than the oh-too-typical first Sunday of the month -- which mildly offends me. .. But what really troubles me is a clergyman saying that communion is more important than anything else in the worship service, including the sermon. .. That is error, IMO. ... Anyway, that's what communion is: an act of collective worship. .. Believers do NOT receive anything by participating, such as "merit". .. That is false.

The reason why the Table is more important than the sermon is that the sermon is more of a mental or intellectual approach in the service, telling us what to believe and what to do. But the meal, feeds us spiritually so as to give us the power. It is the means of grace by which God’s Spirit lives and moves in us as we digest, not only His spoken word, but the incarnate Word. God’s Spirit is at work as we do both, but it is activated by the supper. Hence, why it is more important than the sermon.