When someone is raised with an expectation that what is needed for pardon is to degrade yourself until the offended feels better or continually apologize and grovel until you’ve learned your lesson, it's difficult to see how forgiveness can be so easy and free, or that someone would really desire to forgive you.

“You mean, all I have to do is drink this cup and I’ll be forgiven? All my sins will be wiped away?” Yes! Only in this cup, this blood, can God and man come and live together.

In my lifetime, I have heard significantly more teaching on the blood of Christ than on the body of Christ. Consequently, I typically have more scripture in my mind about Christ's blood on the cross than I do about Christ's body on the cross at communion.