1. Opening Prayer

2. With Your Parents!!!!
Share James 5:16 with your parents. Confess your sins them so they can assure you of God’s forgiveness. Then switch roles, and you assure your parents that God forgives them all sins for Jesus’ sake.

3. With Your Parents!!!!
Talk with your parents about excommunication. What do they think of when they hear that word? Be sure to share the definition and purpose of excommunication that we spoke of in class!

4. Test 15

5. Session

6. The Sacrament of the Altar

7. Vocabulary instituted commanded and started testament covenant;promise
communion
union; fellowship; sharing; participation

8. Vocabulary transubstantiation
teaching that the elements change from bread and wine to the body and blood of Jesus

9. Memory What is the Sacrament of the Altar?
It is the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ under the bread and wine, instituted by Christ Himself for us Christians to eat and to drink.

10. Memory
#943 Matthew 11:28
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
# Cor 11:27
Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.

11. With Your Parents
Ask your parents the following questions about the Lord’s Supper:
What is your most memorable celebration of the Lord’s Supper?
Why was it so special?
When do you most desire Holy Communion?
What does it mean to participate in the body and blood of Jesus? (1 Corinthians 10:16-17)

12. The Sacrament of the Altar
What is the Sacrament of the Altar?
It is the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ under the bread and wine, instituted by Christ Himself for us Christians to eat and to drink.

13. Where is this written?
The holy Evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke, and St. Paul write:
Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night when He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to the disciples and said: "Take, eat; this is My body, which is given for you. This do in remembrance of Me."

14. In the same way also He took the cup after supper, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you; this cup is the new testament in My blood, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."

15. Questions
Where are the words of Institution found in the Bible?

16. Matthew 26:26-28
Mark 14:22-24
Luke 22:19-20
1 Corinthians 11:23-26

17. Questions
What is the three part definition of a Sacrament?

18. What is a Sacrament? Commanded by God God’s Word and earthly elements
Offers and gives forgiveness of sins

19. Questions
285 What are some other names for the Sacrament of the Altar?

20. The Sacrament of the Altar
The Lord’s Supper
The Lord’s Table
Communion or Holy Communion
Eucharist (“give thanks”)

21. Questions Who instituted the Lord's Supper? Jesus
What was He celebrating with His disciples?
Passover
What do we call that day?
Maundy Thursday

22. Questions What does Christ give us in this sacrament?
His true Body and Blood for forgiveness
How do we know it was not just picture language?
Bible states it plainly, saying the bread and wine are a communion/participation in the body and blood of Christ.

23. Questions What are the visible elements in this Sacrament?
Bread & Wine
How are the Body and Blood in the Sacrament?
the Sacramental Union

24. Sacramental Union
Everyone who receives Holy Communion receives Christ’s body and blood whether they believe it is there or not. Why?

25. Questions
Does everyone who communes receive the Body and Blood of Christ?
Yes

26. What puts the power in the Sacrament?
God’s Word

27. Questions Why should we receive the Sacrament of the Altar often?
God's invitation,
my need to be forgiven and strengthened,
Chirst's promise of forgiveness.

28. What is the Lutheran teaching about the Lord's Supper?
Real Presence
What is the Catholic teaching about the Lord's Supper?
Transubstantiation
What is the Reformed teaching about the Lord's Supper?
Symbolic

29. What is Present? Body Blood Bread Wine Roman Catholic
Transubstantiation
Lutheran View
Real Presence
Reformed
Symbolic
Body
Blood
Bread
Wine

30. Means of Grace Word and Sacraments
Ways in which God offers, gives and seals the forgiveness that Jesus won for us on the cross
Word and Sacraments

31. In the Sacraments, God Gives, We Receive

32. Communion
Fellowship
Sharing
Participation
Union

33. Remembrance + Maundy Thursday Matthew 26:26-28 Mark 14:22-24
Luke 22:19-20
1 Corinthians 11:23-26

35. Closing Prayer