1 Corinthians 11:26
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- #HC54 What do you believe concerning the holy catholic Christian church? I believe that the Son of God, out of the whole human race, from the beginning of the world to its end, gathers, defends, and preserves for Himself, by His Spirit and Word, in the unity of the true fa...
- #HC67 Are both the Word and the sacraments then intended to focus our faith on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross as the only ground of our salvation? Yes, indeed. The Holy Spirit teaches us in the gospel and assures us by the sacraments that our entire salvation rests on Christ’s one sacrifice for us on the cross.
- #HC76 What does it mean to eat the crucified body of Christ and to drink His shed blood? First, to accept with a believing heart all the suffering and the death of Christ, and so receive forgiveness of sins and life eternal. Second, to be united more and more to His sacred body through th...
- #HC79 Why then does Christ call the bread His body and the cup His blood, or the new covenant in His blood, and why does Paul speak of a participation in the body and blood of Christ? Christ speaks in this way for a good reason: He wants to teach us by His supper that as bread and wine sustain us in this temporal life, so His crucified body and shed blood are true food and drink fo...
- #AOC84 What is it to eat the Body of Christ? It is not only to imbrace, by an assured Confidence of Mind, the whole Passion and Death of Christ, and thereby, to obtain Forgiveness of Sins, and everlasting Life, but also by the Holy Ghost, who dw...
- #AOC86 Are then the Bread and Wine made the very Body and Blood of Christ? No, verily; but as the Water of Baptism is not turned into the Blood of Christ, but is only a Signe and Pledge of those things that are sealed to us in Baptism; so neither is the Bread of the Lords Su...
- #BC102 What is the Lord’s supper? The Lord’s supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shown forth, and the wort...
- #WLC174 What is required of them that receive the sacrament of the Lord’s supper in the time of the administration of it? It is required of them that receive the sacrament of the Lord’s supper, that, during the time of the administration of it, with all holy reverence and attention they wait upon God in that ordinance, d...
- #WLC176 Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper agree? The sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper agree, in that the author of both is God; the spiritual part of both is Christ and his benefits; both are seals of the same covenant, are to be dispense...