"Take, eat; this is my body...Drink of it all of you, for this is my blood." (Matthew 26:26-28)
But still, can He really of meant for us to actually eat His body and drink His blood and do so for the forgiveness of sins? Isn't that just beyond the pale of possibility? Again, the New Testament is not ambiguous on this.
St. Paul also declares, "the cup of blessing which we bless is it not a participation or communion in the blood of Christ?" And St. Paul flat out tells you that whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy matter is not guilty of bread and wine but guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. So we are to examine ourselves before we partake.
And again, just as the witness of the Church through the centuries is universal about the reality of the bread being Christ's body, so also the contents of the cup being His true blood, and bringing to us all that blood has won for us.
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-Pr. Will Weedon
