The Lord’s Supper: Given and Shed for You is the fifth poster in the Ad Crucem doctrine series. It maps the Lutheran doctrine of the Lord’s Supper, showing that the body given on the cross and the blood shed for the sins of the world are the very body and blood Christ gives into the mouths of his people for the forgiveness of sins. Read it from top to bottom: arrows run from a doctrine to the doctrines that rest on it. Remove a box and everything below it loses its ground.
“This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” Luke 22:19
What the poster maps
-
What the Scriptures set before the Supper: the Passover lamb, the blood of the covenant, no remission without blood, one sacrifice once for all, the Word made flesh, and the Words of Institution as Christ’s last will and testament.
-
The keystone of the series: the vicarious satisfaction, Christ’s active and passive obedience, offered to God and purchased with blood.
-
The testament of the cross: the Words of Institution taken as spoken, and the same body given on the cross.
-
What the Supper is: the sacramental union, consecrated by Christ’s own word, received with the mouth by worthy and unworthy, forgiveness given and sealed.
-
What rests on it: altar fellowship as church fellowship, and the minister as steward of the mysteries.
-
The diagnosis, where the chain breaks: six errors, from the Supper dissolved into proclamation and Zwingli’s “signifies” to the sacrifice of the Mass, receptionism and open altars, each shown cutting the chain at the link it removes.
Every box carries its Scripture references and key citations from Teigen’s The Lord’s Supper in the Theology of Martin Chemnitz, Pieper, Nagel and the Lutheran Confessions. A study aid for pastors’ studies, classrooms, Bible classes and confirmation rooms.
Size: 12 × 36 inches.
Mix and match the doctrine series: any 2 posters for $58, any 3 for $68, any 4 for $75, or all 5 for $89, shipped together. The price drops automatically in your cart, or order all five as one item with Set 1. The other posters in the series: What Rests on the Vicarious Satisfaction, Holy Scripture: It Testifies of Christ Jesus, The Person of Christ: True God and True Man for Us, Creation and the Fall: Why Christ Had to Die.