The sacrament is a sacred ordinance. It is the only ordinance in our church that you do over and over for yourself. You're baptized once for yourself and sealed once for yourself- but we take the sacrament every week. I took a class at EFY (church youth camp) and the teacher said that Jesus drank the BIG cup of sin (Matthew 26:39) and is asking us to drink the small one (literal cup). Of course the sacrament reminds us of the Atonement, as the bread and water symbolize the body and blood given, and it reminds us of baptism as we renew those covenants we've made. Romans chapter 6 brings baptism and the Atonement together: "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." (v. 3-4) I have a testimony of the sacrament and its power.
"No more sacred ordinance is administered in the Church of Christ than the administration of the sacrament."
David O. McKay
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