“Participation in the Lord’s Supper,” writes Wayne Grudem, is very clearly a means of grace which the Holy Spirit uses to bring blessing to his church. . . . We should expect that the Lord would give spiritual blessing as we participate in the Lord’s Supper in faith and in obedience to the directions laid down in Scripture, and in this way it is a “means of grace” which the Holy Spirit uses to convey blessing to us. . . . There is a spiritual union among believers and with the Lord that is strengthened and solidified at the Lord’s Supper, and it is not to be taken lightly.79
