The service is very simple. After a hymn and a reading from Scripture, there is usually a brief explanation of the scripture by the person leading the service, who is normally the pastor or an elder. He then asks for a prayer of "thanksgiving" for the bread. Anyone present may offer that prayer. The bread is then taken to the congregation and each person breaks off a small piece.

The same procedure is carried out for the wine: a prayer of thanksgiving is offered by a member of the congregation and then each person takes a small glass.

Different Baptist churches may vary slightly from this pattern but mostly this is the way it is done.

• The Lord’s Supper is a simple ceremony in which the bread and the wine are symbols of the body and blood of Our Lord. We do NOT believe that the bread and wine change into the body and blood of the Lord.