THE LORD’S SUPPER AS A MEANS OF GRACE:
More than a memory
By Richard C. Barcellos
Christian Focus. 128 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978 1 781 912 683
Richard Barcellos longs for the church to move away from the view of the Lord’s Supper as just being a means of remembering Christ’s death to the ‘Reformed’ view that understands the Supper as a ‘means of grace’.
In particular, he wants to show us how we receive grace as we take part in the Supper. He argues ‘that the Lord’s Supper is a means of grace because of what the Holy Spirit does in the souls of believers when local churches partake of it. The Spirit effects (or enhances) present communion between the exalted Redeemer and his pilgrim people on the earth’ (p.103).
