You may regularly take part in communion in your local church.

What does this expression of faith really mean? Are we eating and drinking

Christ's physical body and blood? Today on Truth for Life, Alaskar

Begg takes a closer look at the Lord's supper.

Baptism and the Lord's supper are communion. Whatever other important ends may

be intended for both of them, they were appointed as a mode for publicly

professing our faith in the gospel. That by means of our celebration of the

Lord's supper, by means of our participation in the opportunity of baptism,

both contexts are an opportunity for the public profession of our faith. If

people would come around and say, why do you celebrate this meal as you do the

answer is because of who Jesus is and because of what he has done? Why are you

going through water in this way? Why are you undergoing this ceremony or this

right? The answer would be the same thing because of who Jesus is and because

of what he has done and because of what he has asked me to do. Both of the

ordinances of the church do this for us. A gustan defined them as outward and

visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace. In each case, the sign is a

visible display that points to a reality different from and more significant

than itself. For example, you may know that there is a sign somewhere up on the

freeway that points to Chicago. You may know the sign you may have actually

have parked your car underneath the sign. You may have actually pointed the sign

out to other people and you could be very familiar with the sign without ever

having visited the place to which it points. There is a Chicago, you know, because

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