In what way can we consider the Lord's Supper more than just a memorial service but a means of grace? In this impressive new study, Richard Barcellos shows that the Lord's Supper is a means of grace because of what the Holy Spirit does in the souls of believers when local churches partake of it.
Table of Contents:
- The Terminology connected to the Lord's Supper in the New Testament
- Communion at the Lord's Supper
- Spiritual Blessings and the Holy Spirit
- Spiritual Invigoration through Prayer
- The Confessional and Catechetical Formulation of the Lord's Supper as means of Grace in the Reformed Creedal Tradition
- Final Thoughts
Praise for The Lord's Supper as a Means of Grace:
"It is good to be able to recommend this book in which Baptist pastor and theologian Richard Barcellos, reclaims the Lord's Supper as a means of grace and argues for its significance in the life of the local congregation. it is to be hoped that this book will have a significant influence in encouraging us all to think more carefully about the role of the Supper."-Carl R. Trueman ~ Paul Woolley Professor of Historical Theology and Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Richard Barcellos is to be commended heartily for detailing the biblical and theological foundations of what our forefathers in the faith knew well: namely, that, the Lord's Table is, in the words of the Calvinistic Baptist William Kiffin, a vehicle of "spiritual nourishment.""-Michael A. G. Haykin ~ Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky
Richard Barcellos is Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Palmdale, California.
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