Q.170. How do those who receive the Lord’s supper in the right way feed on the body and blood of Christ?

A. The body and blood of Christ are not present in bod ily or physical form, either in, with, or under the bread and wine in the Lord’s supper.[1] They are, however, spiritually present to the faith of the recipient just as truly as the external elements are obvious to the senses.[2] And so those who receive the Lord’s supper in the right way do truly and actually feed on the body and blood of Christ, not in a bodily or physical way, but spiritually,[3] while by faith they receive and apply to themselves Christ crucified, along with all the benefits of his death.[4]

1	Acts 3:21	dummy text
2	Matthew 26:26	dummy text
	Matthew 26:28	dummy text
	Galatians 3:1	dummy text
	Hebrews 11:1	dummy text
3	1 Corinthians 11:24-29	dummy text
	John 6:51	dummy text
	John 6:53	dummy text
4	1 Corinthians 10:16	dummy text