The document discusses the significance of communion and the Lord's Supper. It explains that during communion, believers partake in the body and blood of Christ through eating bread and drinking wine. The Lord's Supper encourages Christians to look back at Christ's sacrifice on the cross, to look within themselves in self-examination, and to look ahead to Christ's second coming.

1. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you,
that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed
took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it,
and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in
remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the
cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in
my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in
remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread
and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he
comes.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (ESV)

3. communion: koinonia (koy-nohn-ee'-ah);
participation, sharing, communion.

4. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a
participation in the blood of Christ? The bread
that we break, is it not a participation in the
body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 10:16 (ESV)

5. The Lord’s Supper Encourages Us To:
1. LOOK BACK

6. And when your children say to you, ‘What do
you mean by this service?’ you shall say, ‘It is the
sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, for he passed
over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt,
when he struck the Egyptians but spared our
houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and
worshiped.
Exodus 12:26-27 (ESV)

7. And he took bread, and when he had given
thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying,
“This is my body, which is given for you. Do this
in remembrance of me.”
Luke 22:19 (ESV)

8. The Lord’s Supper Encourages Us To:
1. LOOK BACK
2. LOOK WITHIN

9. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat
of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone
who eats and drinks without discerning the
body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
1 Corinthians 11:28-29 (ESV)

10. The Lord’s Supper Encourages Us To:
1. LOOK BACK
2. LOOK WITHIN
3. LOOK AHEAD

11. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the
cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he
comes.
1 Corinthians 11:26 (ESV)

12. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the
vine until that day when I drink it new with you
in my Father's kingdom.”
Matthew 26:29 (ESV)

13. “Next time in Jerusalem”
“Next time with Christ”