TheThirdandReformedAdam
Puritan Board Freshman
A believer is to be baptized only once; the Lord's Supper is to be participated in many times throughout the Christian life. Baptism is to be done once because, as it is popularly put, signifies the once-for-all work of Christ; it also signifies our regeneration which, the logic goes, means we shouldn't be baptized again since we are only born again once.
Now, before any false ideas come up, I agree with this, and I also believe that the Lord's Supper is to be participated in numerous times. I simply want some help clarifying exactly why the Lord's Supper isn't participated in only once on the same grounds. [I have to teach tomorrow night on baptism and I'd like this clear in my own thinking]. When we come before the table of the Lord, we certainly come with minds filled with thoughts of our union with Christ, yet this union is not something we lose and regain over and over in a cycle, so why do we feast again and again?
Now, before any false ideas come up, I agree with this, and I also believe that the Lord's Supper is to be participated in numerous times. I simply want some help clarifying exactly why the Lord's Supper isn't participated in only once on the same grounds. [I have to teach tomorrow night on baptism and I'd like this clear in my own thinking]. When we come before the table of the Lord, we certainly come with minds filled with thoughts of our union with Christ, yet this union is not something we lose and regain over and over in a cycle, so why do we feast again and again?