Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition - Mentor's Guide

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In this sense, being baptized is no more optional than it was optional for the Hebrew people to decline eating the Passover and putting the blood on the doorpost. To disobey the command of God was to disassociate oneself from the people of God who were being rescued. The obedience in the Exodus story revealed that a person believed God and was committed to leaving with his people. While an extraordinary circumstance might prevent a person from being baptized (e.g. the thief on the cross) without placing that person’s intentions in question, all true believers who have the opportunity to be baptized will do so because they have accepted Christ’s lordship and want to obey his commands and be incorporated into his people. If students need a resource for practical help on leading a communion service (or a baptism), Baker’s Worship Handbook , by Paul E. Engle (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1998) offers a number of sample services from a wide variety of Evangelical traditions including both “sacramental” and “ordinance” perspective. Another major difference between Catholic and Protestant theology about the Lord’s Supper is the Catholics believe that Christ is sacrificed for sin each time that the Lord’s Supper is reenacted. (Protestants refute this on the basis of Hebrews 7.27 and 9.25-26). Unlike Protestants, Catholics also teach that the communion elements (being the actual body and blood of Christ) are worthy of veneration. Catholics and Protestants have made progress in recent years at resolving these differences but differences still remain.

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