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Q78: Do, then, the bread and the wine become the real body and blood of Christ? A: No, but as the water in Baptism is not changed into the blood of Christ, nor becomes the washing away of sins itself, being only the divine token and assurance thereof, so also in the Lord’s Supper the […]
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Q77: Where has Christ promised that He will thus feed and nourish believers with His body and blood as certainly as they eat of this broken bread and drink of this cup? A: In the institution of the Supper, which says: “The Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; […]
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Q76: What does it mean to eat the crucified body and drink the shed blood of Christ? A: It means not only to embrace with a believing heart all the sufferings and death of Christ, and thereby to obtain the forgiveness of sins and life eternal; but moreover, also, to be so united more and […]
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Serving Alongside the Church in the Dominican Republic Seventeen volunteers from the United States and Canada recently traveled to the Dominican Republic to serve alongside Reformed believers by helping replace the deteriorating roof of the San Mateo church with a new concrete roof. Working shoulder to shoulder with the local congregation was about far […]
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Q75: How is it signified and sealed to you in the Holy Supper that you partake of the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross and all His benefits? A: Thus: that Christ has commanded me and all believers to eat of this broken bread and to drink of this cup in remembrance of Him, […]
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Many people know that Armenia was the first nation to adopt Christianity as its official religion in the early fourth century. But fewer know how Protestant churches came to exist among the Armenian people. In the nineteenth century, missionaries from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions—made up of Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and German Reformed […]
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