What Is the Lord’s Supper? (Biblia.com)

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Ever since the night Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper, this sacrament has played a central role in the faith and practice of the church. That is why it is odd that many believers think so little of the Lord’s Supper. “They seldom observe it and assign to it little significance,” Richard D. Phillips writes. “They derive no assurance, and seek no grace, as they receive from the Lord’s table. How...

Instead of a sacrifice that propitiates sin, Reformed theology sees the Lord’s Supper as conveying grace for the strengthening of faith, for the conveyance of assurance, and for spiritual nourishment and growth (see WCF XIV.1, XXIX.1; WSC 96). . Crucial to our understanding of the Lord’s Supper is the question of “how it works.” The answer is inevitably linked to our view of the Lord’s presence in the Supper. In general, we may understand that the memorialist view sees no

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