Lutherans love their paradoxes/mysteries, probably because they are present in the Bible, so you kind of have to if you want to remain faithful/orthodox. One that seems so obvious in hindsight, but that I only recently discovered regarding the body of Christ, kind of blew my mind.
I discussed in a previous post here, why the bread is the body. I have also written previously, here, about unity, but had not really put them together.
The body of Christ is both the church and the bread of life. Faith incorporates us into the body of Christ (1 Cor. 1 and 12), but eating the body gives and strengthens our faith (Matthew 26:26–28; Mark 14:22–25; Luke 22:14–20; 1 Cor.11:25). We are one body of Christ, and our unity is through eating the body of Christ (1 Cor. 10:17)
On a side note, something I found recently is that as of 2010 Pew polls show that about 2/3 of Christians in the world today have the doctrine of closed communion and believe in the real presence.
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