When considering what kind of bread to use for celebrating the Lord's Supper (unleavened or leavened) it really should be a "no brainer".
Those of us who are followers of Jesus are not Old Covenant Israelites, and we shouldn't be pining after the rituals that either God commanded them to practice until their fulfillment (i.e. all sacrifical, dietary, clothing, and feast day laws) or that they creatively organized over the centuries after they were "spit out of the land" (Deut 8:19-20, 28:15-68; Lev 26.14-33) with the destruction of the Temple and Jersualem in 70 AD (which is happening now in "Christianized" Seder dinners...).
Those ceremonial practices were types and shadows pointing to Messiah. And one of those shadows was the observance during Passover to eat unleavened bread. It was intentionally DEAD bread (no leaven). It was deliberately created by Yahwah as a TYPE (or shadow) pointing to the ANTITYPE (or fulfilled reality) Who would come one-day and give life: THE Bread of LIFE, that is, Jesus of Nazareth.
Those of us who are followers of Jesus are not Old Covenant Israelites, and we shouldn't be pining after the rituals that either God commanded them to practice until their fulfillment (i.e. all sacrifical, dietary, clothing, and feast day laws) or that they creatively organized over the centuries after they were "spit out of the land" (Deut 8:19-20, 28:15-68; Lev 26.14-33) with the destruction of the Temple and Jersualem in 70 AD (which is happening now in "Christianized" Seder dinners...).
Those ceremonial practices were types and shadows pointing to Messiah. And one of those shadows was the observance during Passover to eat unleavened bread. It was intentionally DEAD bread (no leaven). It was deliberately created by Yahwah as a TYPE (or shadow) pointing to the ANTITYPE (or fulfilled reality) Who would come one-day and give life: THE Bread of LIFE, that is, Jesus of Nazareth.
So, being on this side of the Resurrection, and with likely around 23 Bibles laying in all corners of our houses, we should all have enough sanctified knowledge to understand that as we memorialize/remember our Messiah-king in our times of Communion we certainly should not be using unleavened bread and act as though the Bread of LIFE has not come! Rather, we joyfully celebrate that the true Leaven has come, and fulfilled the shadows and types. And one of those fulfilled is that there is no more "dead bread".
That being the case, next time the communion bread is passed to you, tear off a larger chunk than you usually do, then relax and take sabbath in reveling in what the Bread of Life has done for you and all His chosen ones!
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