Communion

What is the Purpose of Communion or the Lord's Supper?

• To commemorate the death of Christ: "This do in remembrance of me."
• To signify, seal, and apply to believers all the benefits of the new covenant. In this ordinance Christ ratifies his promises to his people, and they on their part solemnly consecrate themselves to him and to his entire service.
• To be a badge of the Christian profession.
• To indicate and to promote the communion of believers with Christ.
• To represent the mutual communion of believers with each other.

The account of when Jesus instituted this ordinance of communion is given in Matthew 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:19-20, and 1 Corinthians 11:24-26.