Codepoke is doing a series on communion at his blog that’s thought provoking.
The most recent post focused on the Wine as the blood and blood as life. This struck me as I read it today:
We take into our bodies the very life of the Lord Jesus. All the pagan rituals of blood drinking pale and fail before this truth of Christ’s Life poured out for us, on us, and even into us. The Life is in the Blood, and in the Lord’s Supper we join in the communion of His Life.
I’ve attended churches before that said the wine became blood before we drank it. I never got that and it’s been clarified since that the wine symbolizes his blood. Anyway, didn’t go read all his stuff just the thing you’ve commented on.