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Church Questions is a series that seeks to provide ordinary Christians with sound and accessible biblical teaching by answering common questions about church life. Each volume offers biblical answers and practical applications with the goal of nurturing healthy church practice and commitment. Have you taken the Lord’s Supper without understanding what it means? Do you wonder about its relevance...

Jesus used a Passover meal to point his disciples to a new and greater Passover sacrifice—the bread representing his body and the wine representing his blood. Jesus is the Passover Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29; 1 Cor. 5:7). And his Supper helps us remember his great act of salvation. As we eat the bread and drink the cup, we remember him, just as he told us to: “Do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19). We look back with thankful hearts to the cross.1 We don’t need
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