"My tradition has tried not to crucify Christ over and over again," he says. "I think amongst those who hold to a memorial view that there should be some affinity with Calvin's desire to see Christ there via the presence of the Holy Spirit in this moment of the supper" Lutherans will try to answer that question, but it's better when we just simply say, 'I don't know'
Christ instituted the Lord’s Supper and commanded the church to “do this in remembrance of me.” But why? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland compare the unique views of the Lutheran, Baptist, Reformed, and Anglican traditions of this sacrament and what it means to participate in our union with Christ by “eating his body and drinking his blood.”