#sacrament

An ongoing thread on wine and grapejuice in the supper has made me wonder on the issue of gluten allergies. How should churches deal with members who cannot have any gluten, not even a few crumbs once a week/quarter/month (whatever the frequency is)? Does a church get itself a seperate loaf...

Blessed Lord's Day, brothers. I have read John Calvin's Institutes on the sacraments, prompting me to more questions of clarification. 1. Dr. Calvin defines a sacrament as: and further, he says on the sacramental status of the laying on of hands: So, is the laying on of hands a sort-of...

Is this a sacrament / sacrament-like rite? The parallels I have noticed are: - It offers grace (everyone who is bitten shall live) - That grace is acquired through faith (when he looks at it) - It is graciously given from God to his people (Then the Lord said to Moses) The main diffrence I...

I ran across this website, claiming a bunch of reformers held a form of baptismal regeneration that holds that this ordinarily happens to elect infants at baptism. I found it while looking for the source of a quote quoted by "Redeemed Zoomer", a conservative PCUSA lay-person advocating the reform...

I have started reading around a little on the Lord's Supper, and it seems I might have been "Zwinglian by default", but I am still a little confused... Here are some questions: 1. What is the main difference between Zwingli and Calvin on this issue? What are the main biblical arguments for each...

As my family is working through Exodus, we hit the initiation of The Passover Feast in Exodus 12. In explaining and discussing with my family, I also brought up discussion of the Lord’s Supper. As a family, we are also reading through Van Dixhoorn’s Confessing the Faith, which brought us to the...

Good Day All, Being new to being a Presbyterian and specifically the PCA Churh Order. I still am working through undestanding the PCA practices. Now to the matter. In my opinion, since a ruling elder must be able to teach the word and can Preach the Word in a sermon (occasionally), then i...