The Lord's Supper
A Reflection on Frequency, Reverence, and Remembrance Among the ordinances Christ entrusted to His church, few are as precious and as deeply theological as the Lord's Supper. For the evangelical world, the Lord's Supper is neither a sacrament that conveys saving grace nor a mere religious ritual to be performed out of habit. It is […]
The First Obedience Before the Second Ordinance
Why Unbaptized Believers Should Wait to Partake of the Lord’s Supper Evangelicals have rightly guarded the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith. We do not baptize people in order to save them. We baptize people because Christ has saved them. Baptism is not the engine of salvation; it is the immediate, public, obedient response […]
Baptism That Saves? Recovering the Urgency Without Losing the Gospel
Few phrases in Scripture have stirred as much discussion as “baptism now saves you” (1 Peter 3:21). Add to that the language of the Nicene Creed—“We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins”—and the tension becomes clear. Do these statements teach that baptism itself saves? Or have we, in modern evangelical practice, separated baptism from […]