What We Believe About Ordinances

We teach that believers are commanded to participate in the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor. 11:23-26). We are to remember the price that was paid for our sins, using the symbols of bread (representing the body broken for us) and the cup (representing the blood shed for sin). We teach that we should continue observing this act of worship until we partake of it with Christ at His return and we teach that the Lord’s Supper is an excellent object lesson to teach salvation (1 Cor. 11:26). Whereas the elements of Communion are only representative of the flesh and blood of Christ, the Lord’s Supper is nevertheless an actual communion with the risen Christ who is present in a unique way, fellowshipping with His people (1 Cor. 10:16).

We teach that baptism is a significant first step of obedience in the Christian life (Mark 16:15-16). Baptism is a public statement of a believer’s faith in Jesus Christ for salvation (Acts 8:36-38). Baptism is also identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection (Rom. 6). We teach that it is an excellent object lesson to teach the new life in Christ truths and as an object lesson, we teach that immersion is the best mode, which pictures the identification with Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. We teach that baptism is to be reserved for believers only (Acts 8:36-38) and reject infant baptism. We prefer the "dedication of infants" and their parents.