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The Lord’s Supper refuses the rolling pin. It cannot be flattened into something of our own making. In the Lord’s Supper, the Triune God breaks out of the boxes we construct in vain to domesticate Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That is the message of Gordon Smith’s A Holy Meal. He writes with the conviction that the holy meal instituted by Jesus continues to challenge our assumptions about the...

sacraments are not secondary in any sense that would discount or degrade them.3 He notes that the Reformers, especially Calvin, Luther, and the Anglican Reformers, placed a high value on the sacramental actions of the church—much higher than much of contemporary evangelicalism, which claims to be an heir to the Reformation. Further, the Reformers never set Word and sacrament over against each other. Both were consistently viewed as a means of grace. The sacrament of the Lord’s Supper gives us something
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