This section follows Part 5 found here: The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 5: Christ’s Body is Present through the Power of the Holy Spirit Hope for Greater Agreement and Greater Praise  Despite Calvin’s firm opposition to what he considered errant and destructive opinions concerning the Lord’s Supper, he praised… Read More The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 6: Calvin’s Hope and Thoughts Raised On High

This section follows Part 4 found here: The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 4: True Humanity: The Bodily Ascension and Romanist & Lutheran Error B.  Christ’s Body is Present through the Power of the Holy Spirit It is through his divine Spirit that Christ is present at the Supper. Through… Read More The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 5: Christ’s Body is Present through the Power of the Holy Spirit

This section follows Part 3 found here: The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 3: True Presence of the True God-Man True Humanity: The Bodily Ascension: Romanist & Lutheran Error Romanists and Lutherans failed to frame a view of Christ’s presence consistent with the Biblical teaching that the body of Christ is… Read More The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 4: True Humanity: The Bodily Ascension and Romanist & Lutheran Error

This section follows Part 2 found here: The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 2: Spirit-Sanctioned Reason & the Word III.    True Presence of the True God-Man through the Spirit The Reformers believed that, according to the Scriptures, Christ is present in the Lord’s Supper and that his body and blood… Read More The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 3: True Presence of the True God-Man

This section follows Part 1 found here: The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 1 2.  Spirit-Sanctioned Reason & the Word: The Foundation for Right Thinking. Calvin follows at least four fundamental rules in interpreting the Bible’s teaching on the Lord’s Supper. First, God’s Word, the Scriptures, is the only authority… Read More The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 2: Spirit-Sanctioned Reason & the Word

The Current Confusion A lead Wall Street Journal article of March 8, 2004, began: “For the first time in 10 years, Mary Wilkinson went to church one Sunday in January. She sat in a back pew at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Stamford, Conn., flipping through a prayer book and listening intently to the priest’s… Read More The Holy Spirit & the Lord’s Supper: Sublime Reason and Reality – 1: To Be Something with God

This outline may be followed when administering the Lord’s Supper. 1.  The Lord’s Supper is an Ordinance of Christ that He instituted: before his death as a sacred supper, NT covenant meal to supersede Passover as the cross does exodus we look back: commemorate His death we look inside & up: reaffirm our covenant privileges… Read More Communion Service Outline