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Many Bible scholars and well-intented Christian have argued about the Lord’s Supper for the recovery of Biblical worship because of crisis of worship in contemporary church. One of essential components is the Lord’s Supper what Jesus commanded at the table with his disciples. After observing His last Passover feast with the disciples, Jesus said “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood”(Lk 22:20) The first covenant God made with his people was sealed with the shedding of blood. The new covent too was to be sealed by shedding of blood of Jesus Christ. When Christians take the Lord’s Supper, they affirm their participation in a new covenant between God and His people, covenant where the blood of the Son of God has become the basis upon which one appeals to God’s grace and experiences the forgiveness of sins. The aim of this paper is to explore the Lord’s Supper as covenant meal to revitalize worship in the Korean church. The first part of this paper presents the covenants of God, the Lord’s Supper as a seal of the New Covenant and a meal of kingdom of God. The later part of this paper will examine the Lord’s Supper as covenant meal from the Old Testament background(covenants meals in the Clan, at Mount Sinai, in the Sacrificial Systems), covenant meal in the Church(covenant community), and covenant meal in the Eschaton.