Thursday, January 21, 2010

Bless the bread and the wine

It's surprising what you read, sometimes.

That arch-Reformed Protestant document, The Westminster Confession of Faith, says that:

The Lord Jesus hath, in this ordinance, appointed his ministers ... to pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to a holy use;

(Chapter 29, Paragraph 3)


I imagine many contemporary evangelicals would be less fussed about the need for a minister or a prayer of consecration.

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