How do you examine yourself before communion?
1 Corinthians 11:17–34 “Let a person examine himself…. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself” (vv. 28–29). The mode of Christ ’s presence in the Lord’s Supper is only one aspect of the sacrament that has generated disagreement. Among the other issues related to the Lord’s Supper that have been controversial is Roman Catholicism’s understanding of the Eucharist as a kind of reenactment of the sacrifice of Jesus . According to the twenty-second session of the Council of Trent (1545–1563), the Roman Catholic church teaches that the death of Jesus for the salvation of His church is repeated in the Mass each time it is celebrated. To be sure, Rome says, this sacrifice is one that is not bloody; nevertheless, it is real. As with their view of transubstantiation, this understanding of the Lord’s Supper has significant theological problems. Hebrews 10:1–18, the Reformers pointed out, emphasizes the once-for-all nature of Jesus