it is (1) “not a sequence of private meals but an experience of solidarity or fellowship (koinōnia)” with both Christ and one another; (2) an “event of memory,” meaning not recollection but present appropriation and participation; (3) “an act of proclamation—a parabolic sermon”; and (4) a “foretaste of the future messianic banquet.”141 To these four we may now add the following: the Lord’s Supper for Paul is also (5) a microcosm of the new-covenant life effected by the cross.
