Tellout Evangelism Resources and HiVu Photos Galleries
| Next | Previous | Contact Ron | Ron's Blog | Index | Tellout Home |
Water of Baptism Day 65
When we look closely enough, we find the Body of Christ beneath the surface of many seemingly mundane objects, such as water, bread, wine and a wooden cross. These "outward and visible signs of an inward invisible grace" are called sacraments. Augustine said in one of his sermons, "Christians are to see in the many grains, ground by the prayers of exorcism, moistened by the waters of baptism, and now united in the one Eucharistic loaf, the image of themselves as the Body of Christ, the Church."1 All that does not glitter outwardly is not necessarily gold beneath.
The basic purpose of this chapter is to show that the sacramental Body of Christ in all its forms had immense importance for the New Testament church and is a porthole into God's being at the beginning of the Twenty First Century. These sacramental models, when rediscovered, will provide what we now call "the church" with a rich and inspirational understanding of the Mystical without leading into superstition and heresy.
1Sermon 262.
| ^ Top Page | Next | Previous |