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Should I Take The Lord’s Supper?
There is a heresy that permeates evangelical churches. It is connected to fellow heresies; legalism and works-righteousness. It is ugly, and disturbs me whenever I see it occurring in our church. It is the heresy of not taking the Lord’s Supper. (Dum dum duummmmmm.) I have seen this heresy in all of the churches I have been a regular attendee. People (evidently)…
The Lord’s Supper: Open your eyes and look around!
© LWF/J. Latva-Hakuni , under the Creative Commons License. I grew up in the Anglican tradition, and one thing I miss about it is the way in which my family’s church did the Lord’s Supper. We’d all get up the front, and stand in a semi-circle. The minister and some of the elders…
Baptism & The Lord’s Supper: Why has God given them to the Church?
A couple of months ago, Pastor Martin administered the ordinance of baptism on a member of the Hills Bible Church Congregation. Baptism is one of the instituted ordinances of the Christian faith. The Lord’s Supper is the other. In Reformed theology, ordinances are described as ‘means of…