Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 47 Chapter 29 – Of the Lord’s Supper Paragraphs 1-4 I. Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein he was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood, called the Lord’s Supper, to be observed in his Church unto the end of the world; for the perpetual …
More like two sides of one coin rather than two separate works. The church has an inward and an outward focus. Or, as Jonathan Leeman puts it, to be an embassy and an ambassador: The narrow mission of a church-as-organized collective is to make disciples and citizens of Christ’s kingdom. The broad mission of a …
Thom Rainer writes about how churches can find themselves with so many programs and activities that they become ineffective at discipling Christians and sharing the Gospel. From Rainer’s post: So how did our churches get in this predicament? The causes are many, but here are seven of them: Our churches equate activity with value. Thus …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 36 Chapter 21 – Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day (Cont.) Paragraphs 7-8 VII. As it is of the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in his Word, by a positive, moral, and perpetual …
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