Question 104: How are we to prepare ourselves before coming to the Lord's Supper?

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How are we to prepare ourselves before coming to the Lord's Supper?

Before the Lord's Supper we are to examine ourselves of our knowledge to discern the Lord's body, of our faith to feed upon Him, of our repentance, love, and new obedience, lest coming unworthily, we eat and drink judgment to ourselves.

Scripture Proofs

1 Corinthians 11:28-29

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.