Showing posts with label Westminster Standards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Westminster Standards. Show all posts

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Home Communions?

Would the Puritans have rejected home communions on the grounds that the Lord's Supper is a sacrament of the gathered church? Cf. e.g. WCF 29.4: would it be too much like a private mass for them?

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.