The Importance of Context in Communion

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Paul is writing to one of the most undisciplined churches imaginable. He doesn't say the Lord's Supper is a symbol of the kind of community you should have. Because we eat this bread made up of all kinds of different grains in one loaf, we become one body. By drinking this, because we share in Christ ourselves, we are part of this body that also eats and drinks the crucified body and shed blood of Christ to salvation.

When new converts are brought into the church, they are often loaded up with the need to read the Bible, pray, practice repentance, and get into the community—but equally vital to spiritual health is a right understanding of and participation in the means of grace. In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss how the means of grace are used for our sanctification and why they are central to life and identity in the church.