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Church members focused their strong relationship with Jesus Christ , their love for the church , and their concern for the community in a clear mission statement — and in community action . Answer : The Lord 's Supper is a sacrament of the New Testament , wherein , by giving and receiving bread and wine according to the appointment of Jesus Christ , his death is showed forth ; and they that worthily communicate feed upon his body and blood , to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace ; have their union and communion with him confirmed ; testify and renew their thankfulness , and engagement to God , and their mutual love and fellowship each with other , as members of the same mystical body . Not even Jesus Christ , our Lord , Whose every hour on earth knew the pain of His passion . Having shown the insufficiency of Nature , and of Mosaic Law the Council continues : Whence it came to pass , that the Heavenly Father , the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort ( 2 Corinthians 1 , 3 ) , when that blessed fullness of the time was come ( Galatians 4:4 ) sent unto men Jesus Christ , His own Son who had been , both before the Law and during the time of the Law , to many of the holy fathers announced and promised , that He might both redeem the Jews , who were under the Law and that the Gentiles who followed not after justice might attain to justice and that all men might receive the adoption of sons . Continue to strengthen us with your Holy Spirit , and daily increase in us your gifts of grace : the spirit of wisdom and understanding , the spirit of counsel and might , the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord , the spirit of joy in your presence ; through Jesus Christ , your Son our Lord . My dear brethren and sisters , one with us in our most holy Christian faith , I wish you the weapons of light , to fight against the works of darkness ; yea , from the depth of my heart and my inmost soul I wish you new tidings , glad news , an evangelical greeting , grace , mercy , peace , longsuffering , love , comfort , wisdom and steadfastness ; yea from God our heavenly father all His heavenly treasures and riches , through Jesus Christ , our Giver and Distributor , our Prophet ; great Apostle , and High Priest , our Ground , Foundation , and Cornerstone in Sion , our Trumpet , and Horn of salvation in the house of David and camp of Israel , our Way , Door , Truth , and Life , our Reconciler , Mediator , and Advocate , our Peace , Atonement and Righteousness , our paschal Dove and paschal Lamb , our Sun , Light , Morning Star , our delightful Emmanuel , Peace , Comfort , and Captain of the faith , our Shepherd , David , and Solomon according to the Spirit , our Comforter and Rejoicer , our Joy , Gladness , Might , and Strength , our Hero , Warrior , and Conqueror , who led captivity captive , deprived death of its might , power , and strength , that is , Him that had the power of death , brought life and immortality to light , spoiled principalities and powers , triumphed over them in Himself , broke down the middle wall of partition , blotted out the handwriting and nailed it to the cross , fulfilled the promises , satisfied the law , confirmed the testament with His death , and sealed it with His blood , and renewed all things , and put them under His feet , at the mercy seat upon the ark of God , above the cherubim , in the most holy place , that is , the head of His church forever . We yearn and pray for a genuine revival which , more than a reshaping of the liturgy , is an empowering to worship God " in spirit and in truth " , so that in the sacraments Christ is exalted , and in the expository preaching of the written word we see the living Word Jesus Christ , our Lord and Saviour . It develops these in the three chapters on our baptismal faith in the one God : the almighty Father , the Creator ; his Son Jesus Christ , our Lord and Saviour ; and the Holy Spirit , the Sanctifier , in the Holy Church ( Section Two ) . This is indeed a sad commentary on the church , the Body of Jesus Christ , His holy nation , and surely a cause of grief for God . " This verse , like many others , promises that those who have put their trust in Christ will not come into judgment or face God 's wrath because Jesus Christ , our Savior , took God 's judgment in our place . He that is baptized is dipped or washed as a sign of becoming a new man and a loyal subject to that God whose person was represented in old time by Moses , and the high priests , when He reigned over the Jews ; and to Jesus Christ , His Son , God and Man , that hath redeemed us , and shall in his human nature represent his Father 's person in his eternal kingdom after the resurrection ; and to acknowledge the doctrine of the Apostles , who , assisted by the Spirit of the Father and of the Son , were left for guides to bring us into that kingdom , to be the only and assured way thereunto . Not knowing , therefore , what he was bound to think concerning the incarnation of the Word of God , and not wishing to gain the light of knowledge by researches through the length and breadth of the Holy Scriptures , he might at least have listened attentively to that general and uniform confession , whereby the whole body of the faithful confess that they believe in God the Father Almighty , and in Jesus Christ , His only Son [ 250 ] , our Lord , who was born of the Holy Spirit and [ 251 ] the Virgin Mary .