The Lord’s Supper was thus practiced from the birth of the church. Furthermore, in 1 Corinthians 11:23, Paul stresses that he and Jesus taught the same thing concerning the meal, when he states: “I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you. . . .”14 Perhaps, then, the place to start in understanding the atonement is the Lord’s Supper, the atonement symbol that Jesus gave us.
