Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 46 Chapter 28 Of Baptism (Cont.) Paragraphs 4-7 IV. Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptised. V. Although it be a great sin to contemn or neglect this …
Trevin Wax writes about the deadly temptation of desiring a church where everyone is happy with things exactly as they are. …we are right to pursue unity and peace in the church. But we are wrong to assume that the absence of conflict or complaint indicates that things are going in the right direction. The …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 45 Chapter 28 – Of Baptism (Paragraphs 1-3) I. Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptised into the visible Church, but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant …
If you’re attending Christian worship expecting to learn something from the Bible, that’s a fruit of the Reformation. From Michael Reeves: By the 15th century, only a small percentage of people could expect to hear their priest preach to them regularly in their local parish church. The English reformer Hugh Latimer spoke of “strawberry parsons” …
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