Question 47
Does the Lord’s Supper add anything to Christ’s atoning work?
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God.
Prayer
Gracious God, you created us for your glory and you have redeemed us by the blood of your only Son. We belong to you. Nothing can add to the atoning work of your dear Son. We know that we are not our own and we want to glorify you, because we have been bought with your Son’s precious blood. You are our God and we are your children: and we do not want to live for ourselves, but to live for Christ who died for us and rose again. Remind us! Help us! Amen.
Derived and adapted from Charles Simeon’s prayer in “Asa’s Covenant with God” in Horae Homilecticae: or Discourses Forming a Commentary upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament, Volume IV (London: Holdsworth & Ball, 1832), 111.
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