What Are the Proper Elements to Use in the Lord’s Supper?

Question: My Church has been using Oyster Crackers for unleavened bread, and Grape Juice for the wine. I am very concerned about the Crackers. Are we not supposed to use unleavened Bread? I’m very concerned!!!

Answer: Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper during Passover and at Passover they would only use unleavened bread to remind them of the day they left Egypt in haste and left behind all the old life. There is nothing said in Scripture about what exactly we must use in our supper to commemorate Jesus’ sacrifice and promised coming again, but we have historically used elements similar to those at the Passover dinner to show continuity with that past deliverance and our own. Jesus is our Passover Lamb.

But I don’t believe we are required to use unleavened bread.  If the Bible doesn’t command it, we shouldn’t make it a requirement.  There are some places on earth where believers would have a hard time coming up with either of these elements (I’m thinking Papua New Guinea and other remote places). The most important thing is that we are recognizing in these elements the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ for us and anticipating the great wedding feast of the kingdom when we will sit down to meal with Jesus as his bride and commemorate the coming of the kingdom to earth.