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Who should participate in the Lord’s Supper? How frequently should we observe it? What does this meal mean? What happens when we eat the bread and drink from the cup? What do Christians disagree about and what do they hold in common? This volume in the Counterpoints: Church Life series allows four contributors to make a case for the following views: Baptist, Reformed, Lutheran, and Roman...

The very term memorial can be misleading. Many contemporary Christians have thus chafed at the idea of the Supper as a bare means to remembrance—prompting even some Baptists to embrace a more sacramental understanding of the Supper.2 But the historic Baptist concept of the Lord’s Supper serves less as a “memorial” than as a sign—a sign pointing both backward and forward. In the Old Testament, this function of the sign serves as a “reminder” and a proclamation
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