The past, the present and the future all sort of collide in that moment when you eat the bread and drink the wine. That seems magnificently large, awe-inspiring, enormous and overwhelming. The sacrament then is in this way, it is the gospel. It is because here comes in its for you. This is a pastoral conversation before anything else. There Jesus is not joking when He gives us the sacrament and tells us to eat and to drink it. We're nearing the end of our new series on the sacraments. Join us next time as we conclude this important conversation by giving greater attention to the role that the Sacraments play in our Christian lives.
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.”