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A Chorus of Voices on the Lord’s Supper
Last week we saw that weekly communion does not belong to the Roman Catholic church. It predates their church by centuries and at the height of the medieval period, in which many of the accretions the Reformers objected to were introduced, the Roman Catholic church was withdrawing the supper from the church so that many were only partaking once a year. This week I want to step back and simply let us hear some voices from centuries past within the…
What is the Lord’s Supper?
Simply put, the Lord’s Supper is the ordinance or sacrament of ongoing fellowship in the New Covenant assembly, the church. But what do we mean by sacrament or ordinance? John Calvin helpfully describes a sacrament as “A testimony of divine grace toward us, confirmed by an outward sign, with mutual attestation of our piety toward him.”[1] An ordinance is another term for the same reality, highlighting that it was ordained by Christ during His earthly ministry. Jesus Christ instituted the…
The Lord’s Supper (2026)
Last year, our church celebrated the Lord’s Supper weekly leading up to Easter. As the elders discussed this decision, one key point we kept coming back to was this: the Lord’s Supper is a blessing from Christ for His people. As our Statement of Faith says, “These ordinances [baptism and the Lord’s Supper] are visible signs of the saving work of Christ that God has designed for our spiritual benefit.” We recognize that the New Testament does not prescribe the…
