Why does the communion service have bread and wine?
I am sure that most Christians know why we take the wine. The red wine represents the blood of Jesus. Blood was the price Father demanded for forgiveness of sin and only blood untainted by sin could be used. Only God Himself, in human form, had untainted blood. Jesus shed His blood to buy us out of the slave market of sin. In remembrance of this sacrifice we drink red wine. The bread is not so well understood. Jesus Himself said of himself, “I am the bread of life”. In the Old Testament there was a whole host of sacrifices and most of them involved blood. As Hebrews 9:22 says, “without the shedding of blood there is no remission (from sin)”. But not all the sacrifices involved animals and blood. There was one offering called the “grain offering” and it is described in Leviticus 6:17 as “most holy”. It consisted of fine flour and oil. Part of it was mixed with frankincense and burnt in the fire on the altar, the rest was baked by fire into bread, without leaven, and eaten by the priests
