We know what communion is — but why the bread, why the cup, why this specifically? In this episode, we go deeper into yesterday’s conversation and trace communion all the way back to its origins: the very first Passover, when God told the Hebrews to eat standing up, belts fastened, ready to run for their lives.
We work through why God commanded that same meal to be repeated every single generation — not just to remember what happened, but so that each person would see themselves as if they personally were there that night. Dr. Abidan Shah connects that idea to his own mentor’s mentor, the rabbi Gamaliel, and shows how Jesus took that same framework and recast it at the Last Supper. The episode closes with a sobering cautionary tale: the church at Corinth, who got communion so wrong that people were leaving drunk while others went hungry — and what that still has to teach us today.