Heart of the Matter

Came across this from Jack Hayford, American Pentecostal Pastor - unlikely source perhaps, but good point all the same:

It is almost unimaginable to most 21st-century followers of Jesus to think
that three-fourths of the history of the Church, believers had no copy of the
Bible. Even following Gutenberg's development of movable type, it was more than
two centuries before sizable portions of the population could afford a Bible.
Yet for all those centuries, the Church worshiped, the Person of Christ was
exalted and the testimony of salvation through His cross was maintained. It is
because New Testament worship had a center (sic) point - the Lord's table.

The accessible, readily available and mobile resource of
bread and wine - established by the Lord of the Church Himself as the
foundational ritual His people would observe - has, inherent in its elementary
simplicity, a...cluster of worship essential that, to this day, make His table a
universal gathering place...