What do we call it: The Lord’s Supper, an Ordinance, Sacrament, or Communion? This question is common. So let me try to answer it.
First, take a look at the 1689 Baptist Confession and notice the four things I emphasized in bold-italics:
CHAPTER 30 – Paragraph 1. The supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by him the same night wherein he was betrayed, to be observed in his churches, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance, and showing to all the world the sacrifice of himself in his death, confirmation of the faith of believers in all the benefits thereof, their spiritual nourishment, and growth in him, their further engagement in, and to all (more…)
