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The Lords Supper is celebrated at St. John's in the confession and glad confidence, that, as He says, our
Lord gives into our mouths not only bread and wine but His very body and blood to eat and drink for the
forgiveness of sins and to strengthen our union with Him and with one another. Our Lord invites to His
table those who trust His words, repent of all sin, and set aside the refusal to forgive and love as He
forgives and loves us, that they may show forth His death until He comes. Because those who eat and drink our Lord's body and blood unworthily do so to their great harm and because Holy Communion is a confession of the faith which is confessed at this altar, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that of this congregation and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and yet desire to receive the sacrament, are asked first to speak with the Pastor or an Elder. |
"Then Jesus said to them, 'Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His
blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My Flesh
and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise
him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed,
and My blood is drink indeed. He who eat My flesh and
drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.'"
(John 6: 53-56)