2011-10-10

How many types of eating and drinking occur in the Lord´s Supper?

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Three types of eating and drinking occur in the Lord’s Supper: natural, spiritual and Sacramental. Natural eating and drinking is regular eating and drinking. In the Lord’s Supper the bread and wine are eaten in a natural manner, like food.

Spiritual eating and drinking is faith in Christ. Through faith we enjoy the fruits of Christ’s work of redemption, forgiveness of sins.

Read Joh. 6:47-58. We are always to engage in this spiritual eating and drinking.

Note: Joh. 6:47-58 does not speak of partaking of the Lord’s Supper, but rather of this spiritual eating and drinking.

Sacramental eating and drinking occurs only in the Lord’s Supper, for only in the Lord’s Supper can we with our mouth receive and in a supernatural manner eat and drink Christ’s true body and blood. This occurs at the same time as we eat the bread and drink the wine.