Question #47: Does the Lord’s Supper add anything to Christ’s atoning work?

The Lord’s Supper commemorates Christ’s sacrifice and strengthens faith, but unrepentant participants risk judgment.

Christ died once for all, and the Lord's Supper adds nothing to that finished work. Yet this covenant meal still shapes believers, strengthening faith and pointing toward the feast to come, while warning the unrepentant.

11/24/2025

Answer: No, Christ died once for all. The Lord’s Supper is a covenant meal celebrating Christ’s atoning work; as it is also a means of strengthening our faith as we look to him, and a foretaste of the future feast. But those who take part with unrepentant hearts eat and drink judgment on themselves.

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Source: New City Catechism

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