BFC on the Lord’s Supper

Our Statement of Faith

Earlier in the service, we read our statement of faith on the Lord’s Supper. We acknowledged that the Lord’s Supper is an ordinance that Jesus instituted in the upper room on the night He was betrayed. We also affirmed that, through the giving and receiving of bread and wine according to His appointment, His death is proclaimed.

Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 11:26 that when we eat this bread and drink this cup, we “proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

What does it mean that the death of Christ is proclaimed?

It means that as we receive the bread, representing the body of Christ, and the cup, representing His blood, we worship by proclaiming together what Christ accomplished through His death. Our participation declares that His body was given and His blood was shed for us.

As we feed upon Christ by faith, we are spiritually nourished and strengthened in grace. And together, we proclaim that the shed blood of Jesus Christ secured the forgiveness of our sins, as Matthew 26:28 makes clear.

Jesus described His blood as the blood of the covenant. By His death, He established the New Covenant, securing the forgiveness God promised His people. Through Jeremiah, God declared that He would forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more (Jeremiah 31:34).

So, as we participate today, we proclaim that Jesus atoned for our sins. He bore the penalty our sins deserved and satisfied God’s justice. We proclaim that though our sins were as scarlet, the cleansing power of Christ’s blood makes us white as snow.

We who trust in Christ are forgiven. We are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

And we proclaim His death until He comes. The Savior who died for us is risen, and He will return. As we receive the bread and the cup, we remember His sacrifice, rest in His finished work, and look forward to His coming.

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Elder prays for bread

Matthew 26:26 ESV

26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

Elder prays for cup

Matthew 26:27–28 ESV

27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

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