The Importance of the Sacrament in the Church

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The church's entire focus and function is taken away from Christ, he says. "I can't elect myself to be a member of a club called the church" The gospel creates the church in both its preached form and in baptism in the Lord's Supper,. If in these Christ instituted means Christ is building his church, then anything we do cannot be the source of the church's existence.

When new converts are brought into the church, they are often loaded up with the need to read the Bible, pray, practice repentance, and get into the community—but equally vital to spiritual health is a right understanding of and participation in the means of grace. In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss how the means of grace are used for our sanctification and why they are central to life and identity in the church.