Amidst Us Our Belovèd Stands: Recovering Sacrament in the Baptist TraditionWhen it comes to baptism and the Lords Supper, many Baptists reject the language of sacrament. As a people of the book, the logic goes, Baptists must not let tradition supersede the Bible. So Baptists tend to view baptism and Communion as ordinances and symbols, not sacraments. But the history of Baptists and the sacraments is complicated. In Amidst Us Our Belovd Stands, Michael A. G. Haykin argues that earlier Baptists, such as Charles Spurgeon,

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