Is my child ready for communion?

Is my child ready for communion?

One of the responsibilities of sessions is determining whether a non-communing child is now ready to receive the Lord’s Supper. Over the years, it has become the custom in many Reformed churches, even Old School Presbyterian ones, to assume that member children will...
The Elements of Communion

The Elements of Communion

While all true churches administer the sacrament of communion, there is also much diversity when it comes to the elements. We want you to know what to expect in our church and why. Unleavened Bread? We readily grant the fact that the Lord’s Supper was instituted...
Avoiding Extremes at Communion

Avoiding Extremes at Communion

Let us take heed to ourselves in the matter of the Lord’s supper. It is easy to err about it on either side. On the one hand, we are not to be content with staying away from the Lord’s table under the vague plea of unfitness. As long as we so stay away, we are...
Basics of the Lord’s Supper

Basics of the Lord’s Supper

1. Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein he was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood, called the Lord’s Supper, to be observed in his church, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in his death; the...
The Elements of Communion

Preparing for Communion

How are they that receive the sacrament of the Lord’s supper to prepare themselves before they come unto it? They that receive the sacrament of the Lord’s supper are, before they come, to prepare themselves thereunto, by examining themselves [1] of their being in...