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How to Prepare for the Lord’s Supper
How do you prepare for the Lord’s Supper? Perhaps even that question seems odd and you’ve never even thought of preparing for it. But given the seriousness with which the New Testament presents it (see 1 Cor. 11), we ought to think carefully about preparing for it. Paul goes so far as to tell the Corinthians that their abuse of the Lord’s Supper is the reason some of them have died (1 Cor. 11:30)! The Westminster Larger Catechism (171) and…
Is weekly communion a Catholic thing?
Is weekly communion a Catholic thing? That is a question some of you may have, and it is a justified one. After all, for some of you that may be the only context in which you have experienced weekly communion. The contemporary Roman Catholic church does indeed celebrate their mass weekly. But in this brief article I want to make the case that weekly communion is not a Roman Catholic thing. We are not interested in becoming more Roman Catholic…
Who is the Lord’s Supper for?
This week, we will consider the question – who is the Lord’s Supper for? Last week, we saw that the Lord’s Supper is the ordinance or sacrament of ongoing fellowship in the New Covenant assembly, the church. It follows, then, that the Lord’s Supper is for those who have fellowship in the New Covenant, that is, who are members of Christ’s body, the church. The ordinary order then, is baptism (ordinance of entrance into the New Covenant assembly) followed by…
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…
