We Celebrate Baptist Essentials

We call them "ordinances."

Some consider them essential to salvation.

Some consider them as expressions of salvation.

Some consider them as unrelated to salvation.

1. We Celebrate Baptism.

We baptize because Christ commanded it.

We hold baptism as a symbol of conversion.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

We baptize by immersion only.

We baptize believers only.

Acts 2:41 ESV

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

We believe baptism is a condition for church membership.

2. We Celebrate Preaching.

What is it about this thing called preaching?

3. We Celebrate The Lord's Supper.

1 Corinthians 11:27–34 ESV

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. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another— if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.

It is the Lord's.

It was his last.

1 Corinthians 11:23–26 ESV

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, 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.” 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.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.