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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