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 …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 44 Chapter 27 – Of the Sacraments I. Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, to represent Christ and his benefits, and to confirm our interest in him: as also to put a visible difference between those that belong unto …
David Burke, Presbyterian teacher of theology from Sydney writes a brief article about the frequency of celebration of the Lord’s Supper. I’ve recently been thinking that, in contrast to an understanding of gathered worship that emphasises it as being a witness to unbelievers, the celebration of the Lord’s Supper as a means of grace demonstrates …
Jesus shares a meal with the disciples where they fail to comprehend that as they gaze upon him and the bread and wine that they are really seeing the same thing twice. The effect of this is to leave a visible means by which the grace of Christ’s saving work is conveyed to those of …
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