Terminology The Lord’s Supper has come to be referred to in several different ways because of the New Testament terminology associated with it. It is called the “Breaking of the Bread” (Acts 2:42; 1 Cor. 10:16), “[Holy] Communion,” because Paul states that “the cup of thanksgiving” and “the bread we break” are “communion” with the blood and body of Christ and with fellow believers (1 Cor. 10:16), the “Table of the Lord” (1 Cor. 10:21), the “Lord’s Supper” (1 Cor. 11:20), and the “Eucharist,” on