What do the Holy Scriptures teach concerning Communion?
In John 653 we read, “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.” The Church receives this passage at face value – nothing added, nothing taken away. In Communion we become partakers of the Body and Blood of Christ. Just as the new birth (John 3) gives us life through water and the Holy Spirit, so the Body and Blood of Christ sustain His life in us. There is also the fact (Hebrews 9:11, 12) that Christ our High Priest enters the heavenly Sanctuary with His own Blood, and that it is in this heavenly Sanctuary that we worship (Hebrews 10:19-25). There is only one Eucharist, the one in heaven, and we join in that one feast. We must neither add to nor subtract from the Word of God. Therefore we confess with Holy Scripture that the consecrated bread and wine is the Body and Blood of Christ. It is a mystery: we do not pretend to know how or why. As always, we come to Christ in childlike fait
