UNDERSTANDING FOUR VIEWS ON THE LORD’S SUPPER Books in the Counterpoints Series Church Life Evaluating the Church Growth Movement Exploring the Worship Spectrum Remarriage after Divorce in Today’s Church Understanding Four Views on Baptism Understanding Four Views on the Lord’s Supper Who Runs the Church? Exploring Theology Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? Five Views on Apologetics Five Views on Law and Gospel Five Views on Sanctification Four Views on Eternal Security Four Views on Hell Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World Four Views on the Book of Revelation How Jewish Is Christianity? Show Them No Mercy Three Views on Creation and Evolution Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond Three Views on the Rapture Two Views on Women in Ministry ZONDERVAN Understanding Four Views on the Lord’s Supper Copyright © 2007 by John H. Armstrong All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non- exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan. Mobipocket Edition February 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-54278-0 Requests for information should be addressed to: Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moore, Russell, 1971–. Understanding four views on the Lord’s Supper / Russell D. Moore. p. cm. — (Counterpoints : church life) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-310-26268-8 1. Lord’s Supper. I. Title. BV825.3.M66 2007 234'.163 — dc22 2007014707 All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible: New ® ® International Version . NIV . Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. Scripture references marked TNIV are taken from the Holy Bible, Today’s New International ® Version™. TNIV . Copyright © 2001, 2005 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible. Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the King James Version of the Bible. Internet addresses (websites, blogs, etc.) printed in this book are offered as a resource to you. These are not intended in any way to be or imply an endorsement on the part of Zondervan, nor do we vouch for the content of these sites for the life of this book. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other — except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. 07 08 09 10 11 12 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1