[PDF] Meditations on the Lord's Supper... book. The Lord's Supper is best when it is done quickly and efficiently, leaving more time for the sermon. We take it because we must. Again, I know many Christians who use this time to focus on Christ. The problem, I think, lies in the way we treat it as a community. Recommended Citation. Love, Stuart (1990) "Remembering Those Present and Missing: A Meditation on the Lord's Supper," Leaven: Vol. 1:Iss. 3,Article 10. It is the Lord s Supper that is the symbol of this unity and the Scriptural observance of this memorial feast is really the expression of Christian unity (John Reid, 1987). Thus the Lord s people gather together and bear witness of their oneness of life in Christ and in the Body of which He is the Head. What is the significance of the Lord's Supper? Celebrating the Lord's Supper is deeply significant and full of meaning. First held when Jesus kept the Passover feast with His disciples on the evening before He was betrayed, the Lord's Supper, or Christian Communion, looks back to the death of our Lord and ahead to His victory over death at the Not