Drinking from the common cup [chalice] is the preferred mode of receiving the Lord's Supper, but it isn't mandatory. But it does best confess what Christ instituted, and it does confess one cup institution. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod doesn't say you must do it but that it is to be preferred. It actually holds fast to Christ's institution, so to use individual cups is certainly not forbidden. Still, it carries with it implications of individualism that is not included in Christ's original institution. It's right there in the term individual cups, "individual," and we come together as a body.
-Pr. Todd Wilken
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