As they eat the Body that is for them and drink the Blood of the Covenant poured out for the forgiveness of sins they are united with the Christ Who has suffered and died for their salvation and for that of all humankind. Their sympathies for every member of their own Christian community, for every member of the larger group community of which theirs is a part, for every other Christian, and for the pagans for whom Christ died no less than for them have been sharpened and broadened and deepened by the fact that they have in Christ entered into one another. -- A. C. Piepkorn, *The Church* pp. 242,243
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