Category: Elder’s Blog

It is a simple question, but it opens a bigger one underneath it: How should the church handle what the Lord Himself gave us? Some churches take communion every week. Some do it once a month. Some quarterly. Some only on special occasions. The Bible does not give one fixed schedule — but it does...

Do the sacraments convey grace, or do they merely signify it? That question has been argued for centuries — not just in seminary classrooms, but in churches, at the Table, and in the hearts of believers trying to understand what exactly Christ is doing when His people come to the water, the...

Do the sacraments convey grace, or do they merely signify it? That question has been argued for centuries — not just in seminary classrooms, but in churches, at the Table, and in the hearts of believers trying to understand what exactly Christ is doing when His people come to the water, the...

Nearly every branch of Christianity honors the Lord's Supper in some form — but Christians have long disagreed over a central question: What is actually happening at the Table? Is Christ present in a special way? Is the Supper mainly a memorial of His death? Or is it somehow both? That question...

Baptism stirs up questions in almost every church. Some folks were baptized as infants and never thought much more about it. Others came to faith later in life and were immersed as believers. Some churches sprinkle, some pour, some immerse. And the debates over who should be baptized and how it...