On the Lord's Supper
The Proof of the Cup
Where the power of the sacrament actually lies — and why the wine-only argument misplaces it
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The insistence that “proper communion is wine only” sounds like high sacramental seriousness — but pressed even gently, it relocates the Supper’s power from Christ’s promise to the chemistry of the cup. This essay traces where that power actually lies: in the Word joined to the fruit of the vine, not in the proof.