By Bill Nicks There has always been a tendency on the part of men toward ritualism in their efforts to worship, whether worshippers of the true God or false gods. These describe the deterioration of true worship into rites designed by uninspired men, and are a caricature of the true worship as prescribed by Christ. The difference in true worship and false worship is clearly described in the Bible.
Ritualism is the opposite of worshipping in spirit and in truth.
The Lord's supper was designed to remember Christ's death on the cross. These emblems represent his body and blood. There is a great difference in an emblem which the Lord has set for the purpose of impressing some truth upon worshippers, and in hollow rituals which men have added. Even Old Testament worship had its emblematic observances, but without meaning. After this, he was to make an atonement for the holy place, and for the tent of meeting.