First Baptist Owasso
Baptist Faith & Message | Article 7 – The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolic of the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5:17-19 NIV
Baptist Faith and Message • Article 10 - “God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.”
Article 7 – Baptist Faith and Message 2000 – The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.
The Lord’s Supper and Baptism are ACTS of OBEDIENCE.
The Lord’s Supper and baptism are PICTURES of DELIVERANCE.
Questions about the Lord’s Supper:
Should unbelievers be allowed to take the Lord’s Supper?
How often should the Lord’s Supper be taken?
Are the bread and juice actually Christ’s body and blood?
Transubstantiation – when the bread and wine are blessed by the priest they turn into the real, actual body and blood of Jesus.
Consubstantiation – Jesus is mystically present with the bread and wine.
Symbolic Act - 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.
Luke 22:19-20 NIV
Should visitors be excluded from taking the Lord’s Supper even if they are Christians?
Closed communion – every visitor is excluded from taking the Lord’s Supper.
Semi-closed communion – Only Baptist visitors may take the Lord’s Supper.
Open communion – All believers may take the Lord’s Supper.
Questions about Baptism:
Are other modes of baptism acceptable to God?
Why do we not baptize infants?
2 Corinthians 5:19-21 NIV
The Lord’s Supper and baptism paint a picture of the PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE.
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