A Front Door and a Family Meal
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Baptism is a kind of front door to the local church, the God-ordained means through which a person identifies with Jesus Christ and formally comes to belong to Christ’s body, the church. Baptism is the church’s sign that this person is one of us, a brother or sister in the Lord, who has now been welcomed into the house through the front door. And just like baptism proves that a person belongs, so too does the Lord’s Supper. Bobby Jamieson says that if baptism can be understood as the front door of the house, then the Lord’s Supper can…
