370. In what way does the believer get life and salvation through this sacrament?
Through this sacrament the believer is brought into spiritual fellowship with his Lord and Savior, who imparts Himself to him and thus preserves and strengthens him in faith, hope, and love unto eternal life.
John 6: 56. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
371. Does not the sacrament of the Lord's Supper also bring about a more intimate fellowship between believers?
Yes; believers are united in a closer fellowship through partaking in common of the Lord Jesus and eternal life in Him.
1 Cor. 10:17. For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
372. How can bodily eating and drinking do such great things?
It is not the eating and drinking, indeed, that does it, but the words which stand here: "Given and shed for you, for the remission of sins." These words, together with the bodily eating and drinking, are the chief thing in the sacrament; and He that believes these words, has what they say and mean, namely, the forgiveness of sins.
373. Is it of little importance how we receive the Lord's Supper?