Please what is the meaning of "as often as" in 1 Corinthians 11:23-28 in the original language. Some from other faiths, the Jehovah Witnesses, Methodists, claim yearly or any time of the year and not on the Lord’s day.

With all respect, let me say that Lois and Hugo are not your mother and daddy. It is right to speak of one’s earthly parents as "father and mother" (Ephesians 6:2), but as titles it is a sin, for Jesus said, "Call no man your Father on the earth, for you have one Father, and he is in heaven" (Matthew 23:9). People all over the world speak of "Mother Teresa," giving her a title, a woman who was never the mother of a baby. It is right to speak of you two, Peter and Vida, as a brother and sister in the Lord, in a spiritual family, but not as titles. Some people capitalize the word "Brother" in reference to a gospel preacher, making the word a religious title, which is as wrong as to call a priest "Father." Peter referred to a fellow Christian as "our beloved brother Paul" (2 Peter 3:15). The word "brethren" or "brothers" often is used in Scripture to refer both to Christian men and to Christian women (Romans 1:13; 1 Corinthians 1:10).

The phrase "as often as" (1 Corinthians 11:26) does not specify when the Corinthians observed the Lord’s Supper, but the phrase taught them that, every time they partook of the Supper they were "proclaiming the Lord’s death until he comes." Since the collection at Corinth was set for "the first day of every week" (1 Corinthians 16:2), the indication is that the phrase "as often as" refers to the Lord’s Supper being observed at that same time as the collection was taken.

Everyone agrees that there is nothing wrong about partaking of the Lord’s Supper on "the first day of every week." When some decide to observe the Supper once a month or once a year or on a week night, they have no Scripture, only their opinions. When Paul, in a hurry to get to Jerusalem (Acts 20:16), waited seven days in Troas (Acts 20:6) when the church came together "on the first day of the week" to break bread (Acts 20:7), it appears that such was the regular custom of the church at Troas. We cannot improve on that example.