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    Baptism and the Lord's Supper
    Baptism and the Lord's Supper
    Baptism and the Lord's Supper
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    Baptism and the Lord's Supper

    By Thabiti M. Anyabwile and Ligon Duncan

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    The sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper have played an important role in the church since its earliest days. There has also been much disagreement within the church about how to understand them. 

    Pastors Thabiti Anyabwile and J. Ligon Duncan have teamed up to outline the Bible’s basic teaching about baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Speaking from different traditions, they bring perspective to the discussion while both observing that baptism and the Lord’s Supper should be fundamentally understood as pointing to something greater. This new booklet from the Gospel Coalition will bring clarity for those wanting to understand the importance of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. 

    The authors offer a thoughtful explanation for point 12 of the Gospel Coalition’s Confessional Statement. The coalition is an evangelical renewal movement dedicated to a Scripture-based reformation of ministry practices. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateAug 2, 2011
    ISBN9781433527913
    Baptism and the Lord's Supper
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    Thabiti M. Anyabwile

    Thabiti M. Anyabwile (MS, North Carolina State University) serves as a pastor at Anacostia River Church in Washington, DC, and is the author of numerous books. He serves as a council member of the Gospel Coalition, is a lead writer for 9Marks Ministries, and regularly blogs at The Front Porch and Pure Church. He and his wife, Kristie, have three children.

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      Simple and to-the-point, this expansion on the Gospel Coalition's position on the sacraments offers a very readable, personable account of the sacraments from Rev. Anyabwile's point of view.

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    Baptism and the Lord's Supper - Thabiti M. Anyabwile

    Baptism and the Lord’s Supper

    The Gospel Coalition Booklets

    Edited by D. A. Carson & Timothy Keller

    Gospel-Centered Ministry by D. A. Carson and Timothy Keller

    The Restoration of All Things by Sam Storms

    The Church: God’s New People by Tim Savage

    Creation by Andrew M. Davis

    The Holy Spirit by Kevin L. DeYoung

    What Is the Gospel? by Bryan Chapell

    The Plan by Colin S. Smith

    Can We Know the Truth? by Richard D. Phillips

    Sin and the Fall by Reddit Andrews III

    Christ’s Redemption by Sandy Willson

    Justification by Philip Graham Ryken

    The Gospel and Scripture: How to Read the Bible by Mike Bullmore

    The Kingdom of God by Stephen Um

    Baptism and the Lord’s Supper

    Copyright © 2011 by The Gospel Coalition

    Published by Crossway

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    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

    Cover design: Matthew Wahl

    First printing 2011

    Printed in the United States of America

    Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture references are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. The NIV and New International Version trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica. Use of either trademark requires the permission of Biblica

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    We believe that baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordained by the Lord Jesus himself. The former is connected with entrance into the new-covenant community, the latter with ongoing covenant renewal. Together they are simultaneously God’s pledge to us, divinely ordained means of grace, our public vows of submission to the once crucified and now resurrected Christ, and anticipations of his return and of the consummation of all things.

    —THE GOSPEL COALITION STATEMENT OF FAITH

    I[Anyabwile] sat across the table with Matthew, a creative, inquisitive, free-spirited twenty-five-year-old. He’d come into the restaurant

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