The Lord's Supper Quotes

“The Last Supper is meant to picture not only the fulfillment of past promises of God and the present impending death of Jesus, but just as much the assured future of an even greater meal in the coming kingdom of God.”
― Thomas R. Schreiner, The Lord's Supper: Remembering and Proclaiming Christ Until He Comes

“There are no favorites at the Lord’s Table. The only cure for factionalism, immorality, idolatry, and favoritism, then as now, is the gospel.”
― Thomas R. Schreiner, The Lord's Supper: Remembering and Proclaiming Christ Until He Comes

“The Lord’s Supper is a testimony from God of His love for us, not our religious devotion to Him.”
― Thomas R. Schreiner, The Lord's Supper: Remembering and Proclaiming Christ Until He Comes

“Thus, our main point to make here is that there is not only a crucially vertical (God-humanity covenant) and eschatological (new exodus) aspect to the enacted parable of the Last Supper, but there is equally a horizontal, new covenant community aspect.”
― Thomas R. Schreiner, The Lord's Supper: Remembering and Proclaiming Christ Until He Comes

“Indeed, in this ordinance, the whole of what Christianity means is expressed: one Lord Jesus Christ, incarnate, atoning, and triumphant as the sum and substance of the observance. Without”
― Thomas R. Schreiner, The Lord's Supper: Remembering and Proclaiming Christ Until He Comes