I. Page 156 says "The adoption of this term as a title for the Lord's Supper is not formally attested until the second century AD (cf. Didache 14:1...).
Modern scholars believe that much if not all of the Didache predates the turn of the century and overlaps with the end of the Apostolic era. (For example, University of KwaZulu-Natal's professor Jonathan A. Draper). This neither confirms nor denies his assertions.
II. It seems that Acts 2:46 (breaking bread in their homes) might work against his argument: it appears to be the only time that the phrase is qualified by a prepositional phrase like "in their homes", which could indicate a different intended meaning than the unqualified uses in 2:42 20:7, 11.
III. If "breaking bread" does not refer to the Lord's Supper, then there appears to be no mention of it anywhere in the book of Acts.
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