The Ordinances: Baptism and The Lord's supper

Ordinance or Sacraments?

Ordinances: the practices or the church “ordained” by Christ, that is Baptism and the Lord’s supper.

Sacrament

Sacraments:

“Sacrament” comes from the Latin word, sacramentum, which originally meant “oath of loyalty.”

📷Sacramentum was used to translate the Greek word, musterion.

Sacramentum was used to translate the Greek word, musterion.

📷While musterion or sacramentum was not used in the NT to refer to baptism or the Lord’s Supper, early Christians considered the Lord’s Supper a mystery.

While musterion or sacramentum was not used in the NT to refer to baptism or the Lord’s Supper, early Christians considered the Lord’s Supper a mystery.

📷A sacrament according to the Catholic church is “an external sign possessing the inherent power to communicate divine grace that is necessary for salvation” (Allison, Sojourners & Strangers, 323).

A sacrament according to the Catholic church is “an external sign possessing the inherent power to communicate divine grace that is necessary for salvation” (Allison, Sojourners & Strangers, 323).

Catholics recognize seven sacraments

Baptism

📷Baptism

📷Confirmation

Confirmation

📷Eucharist

Eucharist

📷Penance

Penance

📷Last Rites

Last Rites

Ordination

📷Ordination

📷Marriage

Marriage

Lord’s Supper

instituted by Jesus Christ

English Standard Version Chapter 22

14 And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him. 15 And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” 17 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves. 18 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” 19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. 21 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. 22 For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!” 23 And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this.

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2. The Baptist Faith and Message- “The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.”

3. The Lord’s Supper is to be observed by believers and is to be taken seriously

English Standard Version Chapter 11

23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 31 But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

4. The Lord’s supper is to be observed within the community of believers

Baptism

Pre- Christian Practice for Pagans desiring to apart of the community of Israel

Ordained by Christ in

Matthew 28:18–20 NASB95

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”