非裔美国属灵歌曲，采集自南卡罗来纳州圣赫勒拿岛（St. Helena Island）的 Gullah/Geechee 社群，作者不详. Explore “Let Us Break Bread Together”: song information and official sources.
The pilgrim journey · Sacraments: Communion and baptism
The song's verifiable origins lie in oral tradition and collection among African American communities on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, in the 1920s. It was collected from Penn School students in 1923 and published in 1925. It grew within Gullah/Geechee history and culture, but available evidence does not establish that the surviving words were sung on slave-era plantations; avoid presenting that as certain. The repeated act of kneeling first expresses shared Communion and prayer. Reflecting on the weight of voluntary kneeling in that community's circumstances is a later pastoral association, which may be shared if identified as such. Acts 2:42 records, “They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.” Paul explains how breaking bread joins people: “Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.” (1 Corinthians 10:17). The simple tune suits quiet congregational singing while receiving Communion.
Communion services and congregational singing while receiving Communion; teaching on Acts 2 or First Corinthians 10.