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This sacrament is the consummation of all our worship, renewing us in memory, confession, dedication, fellowship, and hope as disciples of Christ.

HYMN

As Your Family, Lord

Tune: Kum Ba Yah

Verse 1:	As your family, Lord, meet us here. As your family, Lord, meet us here.
	As your family, Lord, meet us here.O Lord, speak your word.
Verse 2:	At your table, Lord, we are fed. At your table, Lord, we are fed.
	At your table, Lord, we are fed. O, Lord, feed us here.
Verse 3:	Fill our spirits, Lord, with your love. Fill our spirits, Lord, with your love.
	Fill our spirits, Lord, with your love. O Lord, with your love.
Verse 4:	Make us faithfull, Lord, to your will. Make us faithfull, Lord, to your will.
	Make us faithfull, Lord, to your will. O Lord, to your will

The Lord's Supper is the sign and seal of eating and drinking in communion with the crucified and risen Lord. During his earthly ministry Jesus shared meals with his followers as a sign of community and acceptance, and as an occasion for his own ministry.

In his last meal before his death, Jesus took and shared with his disciples the bread and wine, speaking of them as his body and blood, signs of the new covenant. He commended breaking bread and sharing a cup to remember and proclaim his death.

In remembering, believers receive and trust the love of Christ present in them and to the world; they display the reality of the covenant of grace in reconciling and being reconciled; and they proclaim the power of Christ's reign for the renewal of the world in justice and in peace.

In this meal the Church celebrates the joyful feast of the people of God, and eagerly expects and prays for the day when Christ shall come in glory and God be all in all. Nourished by this hope, the Church rises from the Table and is sent by the power of the Holy Spirit to participate in God's mission to the world: to proclaim the gospel, to exercise compassion, to work for justice and peace until Christ's Kingdom shall come at last.

Around the Table of the Lord, God's people are in communion with Christ and with all who belong to Christ. Each time we gather at the Table, we, as the Body of Christ are united with the Church in every place, and the whole Church is present; we join with all the faithful in heaven and on earth in offering thanksgiving to the trune God; we renew the vows taken at Baptism; and we commit ourselves afresh to love and serve God, one another, and our neighbors in the world.

Because we believe this about the Lord's Supper and because we do understand ourselves as the Body of Christ and the people of God, this is why we at Salisbury hold the bread and the cup and partake together, after all have received, upon the direction of a Minister.