On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.(Acts 20:7-12 ESV)
The early church was intentional about gathering to break bread. It almost sounds cold that Paul raised the young man up and then ate, but he knew the importance of what he was doing. The "bread of life" of the Word of God was important to share before he left. Everyone went away satisfied. That is what it should be like whenever we break bread together - whether it be to celebrate the Lord's Supper, or just share around a table with other believers, there should be a sense of contentment and joy that fills our hearts, because of Christ.
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