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Truth We Can Touch: How Baptism and Communion Shape Our Lives is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many Christians often feel confused about the sacraments of baptism and Communion. What is happening when someone goes down into the water in baptism? What’s the significance of eating bread and wine together as a church on Sunday mornings? In this book, Tim Chester makes a compelling case that God has given us truth we can touch for a reason: the sacraments embody the promises, grace, and...

of me” (1 Cor. 11:24). And then he handed us bread and wine and water. There can sometimes be a sense that the sacraments are something of an embarrassment to modern evangelicals. We’re not sure what to make of them and what to do with them. To be sure, in Baptist churches baptism is often relished as a great celebration of the triumph of conversion. I hope it is God’s regenerating power that is being lauded, though sometimes I fear the focus is on the church’s evangelistic success. But it remains
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