In the process of Paul correcting the Corinthians' practice of the Lord's Supper, he seems to imply that they were celebrating the Lord's Supper whenever they came together as a church.
"17 Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it" (
1 Cor 11:17-18). He goes on to note how their chronic division was clearly seen in the way they were practicing the Lord's Supper.
When they were gathering together as a church it caused more harm than good because their practice of the Lord's Supper was exacerbating the divisions in the church. In correcting them Paul never suggests that it was wrong for them to have the Lord's Supper so often, but only corrects their abuse of it.
Though this passage implies the Corinthians had the Lord's Supper frequently and though the earliest writings after the NT (Ignatius's letters) support frequent Communion, I have never been a part of a Pentecostal church that celebrated it frequently.
Do any of your churches celebrate the Lord's Supper frequently?
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