A Short History on the Purpose of Creeds
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version Below are short, pastorally framed introductions to the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, written for general congregational use, not specialists. They are suitable to be: read...
Essay 11 – The Use of Creeds
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version The Creed anchors the Lord’s Table in apostolic faith rather than personal experience. It ensures Communion is received: trinitarianly, christologically, ecclesially. In covenantal...
Essay 10 — A suggested Covenant Memorial Communion Liturgy
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version A Suggested Covenant Memorial Communion Liturgy that: is evangelical in theological framing (grace-first, cross-centered, Scripture-governed) expresses a covenantal memorial / Real Presence...
Essay 9 — Recovering Liturgy in Evangelical Churches: Form, Freedom and Faithfulness
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version Liturgy and Evangelical Worship 1. The Question of Form In many low-church evangelical settings, the word liturgy provokes unease1. It is associated with dead ritual, imposed structure,...
Essay 8 — Deepening Practise Without Blowing Up The Church
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version A Teaching Philosophy for Covenant-Focused LeadersFoundational Conviction You do not change a church by winning arguments.You change a church by changing what people see God doing. This...
Essay 7 — A Shift in Emphasis
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version The Covenant Memorial emphasis is not the invention of new doctrine, but the re-centring of old doctrine around neglected biblical grammars. The ideas might feel “fresh” because they’ve been...
Essay 6 — Communion as Covenant Memorial: A Pastoral Teaching Outline
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version Below is a pastoral teaching outline designed for church use rather than the academy. It is structured so it can be delivered as one extended Communion teaching or a short series (3–4...
Essay 5 – Contrasting Anabaptist memorial theology with modern evangelical practice
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version I. What “memorial” means in responsible Anabaptist theology In its stronger Anabaptist forms (e.g., Marpeck; also later Mennonite theological reflection), “memorial” is not thin recollection...
Essay 4 – The Anabaptist Witness: Memorial, Covenant Fidelity, and Eucharistic Participation
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version What follows is a monograph-style chapter that treats the Anabaptist tradition not as a footnote, but as a coherent theological witness. It is written to correct the caricature of Anabaptism...