Lord's Supper: Our Confessional Tradition, Part 1

As a Confessional Church, we rejoice to align ourselves with the faith that has been confessed by our forefathers down through the centuries. Having examined the Scriptural testimony & surveyed the historical discussion, we conclude our study by considering what our Confession (The London Baptist Confession of 1689) says about the Lord's Supper. We confess in chapter 28 that Jesus instituted the Supper & Baptism as ordinances to be observed by His church until the end of the age. Those qualified & recognized by the church are to administer the ordinances. Chapter 30 treats the Supper specifically as a church ordinance, observed to show forth the gospel of Jesus & to spiritually nourish & strengthen the church in her union with Christ. As an historical document, the Confession interfaces with the blasphemy of Roman Catholicism's "Mass". Practices of the Roman church are therefore refuted. Such a refutation is not, however, an archaic relic of an irrelevant past. In our day when we see such compromises as "Evangelicals and Catholics Together", a Confessional refutation of the Roman Mass is quite relevant & needful. Indeed, to observe the Supper "in spirit & truth" is a far different thing than that which is done in a Roman Catholic Mass!