[The History of Understanding of “When” the change takes place in the Bread and Wine]

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Table of Contents

1.THE EARLY CHURCH1

The loss of understanding of the Eucharist7

2.MOMENT THEOLOGY9

East Epiclesis11

Consecration13

3.LITURGICAL MOVEMENT18

Addai and Mari19

4.CONCLUSIONS20

BIBLIOGRAPHY23

The Early Church

When we go back in history and we did the early Church, we see a powerful Church (Holy Spirit-filled), united, pursued but especially fervent in communion with Christ and prayer. The present church has benefits and has not been seen in the history of the church itself. The proliferation of media and technological advances have made the spread of the gospel is much more convenient, comfortable and versatile. The early church had used the means at its disposal, among them were the following:

1. - Oral public freedom of expression, expressed publicly and openly in the streets and alleys etc. That the only source of salvation was Jesus Christ, despite the existing limitations to exercise this right; they used the medium of public expression of his message, Acts 1:15, Acts chapter 4.

2 .- The transmission of the message from person to person: it is said at present there is no better propaganda than spread from one person to another, hence the game of phone tag, this method or means of communication may lose sense when the last receiver. But God in His plans and purposes do not let your message lost strength using this method, nor allowed to lose its strength and distort his words on the contrary each receiver and transmitter listener was exercised with more authority and power of the Holy Spirit no respecter of persons. Romans 2:21

3. - The Testimony: widely used today as a people we testify to the change using a product for a particular purpose. The early church testified that Christ produced change in their lives, and the same them away from vices, practices and ways of doing so many wanted to emulate. Acts 4:33, Acts 26:22

4. - To do a common good: the church except to people and therefore receiving benefits those who knew the good they all had in common, the result was that joined them and those who received the gospel every day united. Acts 2:40-47

5 .- The missionary work: if it seems a way to talk about missions this also is a means, as an ambassador for the sustainment needs to settle in one place, and the apostles and brothers of the early church struggled to send siblings to different regions and support them financially in order to preach the gospel.

6. - Written Media: this means that more ...