Memory Verse:

“Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.” – Psalm 62:8, ESV

Doctrinal Standard:  WSC #98 & 99

Q: What is prayer?

A: Prayer is offering our desires to God in the name of Christ for things that agree with His will, confessing our sins, and thankfully recognizing His mercies.

Q: How does God direct us to pray?

A: The whole word of God, but especially the Lord’s prayer, which Christ taught His disciples, directs our prayers.

Memory Verse:

“Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.” – 1 Corinthians 11:28, ESV

Doctrinal Standard: BC #108 (Compare WSC #97)

Q:  What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?

A:  It is required of them that would worthily (that is, suitably) partake of the Lord’s Supper, that they examine themselves, of their knowledge to discern the Lord’s body; of their faith to feed upon Him; of their repentance, love and new obedience: lest, coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.

Doctrinal Standard: BC #107 (Compare WSC #96)

Q: What is the Lord’s Supper?

A: The Lord’s Supper is a holy ordinance, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, His death is showed forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporeal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of His body and blood, with all His benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.

Memory Verse:

“And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ‘This is  my body which is for you.  Do this in remembrance of me.'” – 1 Corinthians 11:24, ESV

Memory Verse:

“Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.” – Acts 18:8, ESV

Doctrinal Standard: BC #102

Q: Are the infants of such as are professing believers to be baptized?

A: The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be baptized; because there is neither command nor example in the Holy Scriptures, or certain consequence from them, to baptize such.

Memory Verse:

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” ~ Matthew 28:19, ESV

Doctrinal Standard:  BC #101 (Compare to WSC #95)

Q:  To whom is Baptism to be administered?

A:  Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, faith in, and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ; and to none other.

Memory Verse:

“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?”

–Romans 6:3-4a, ESV

Doctrinal Standard: BC #100 (COMPARE WSC#94)

Q: What is Baptism?

A: Baptism is a holy ordinance, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, signifies our engrafting into Christ and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.

Memory Verse:

“And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name”                        – Acts 22:16, ESV

Doctrinal Standard – Baptist Catechism #99

Q: How do Baptism and the Lord’s Supper differ from the other ordinances of God?

A: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper differ from the other ordinances of God in that they were specially instituted by Christ to represent and apply to believers the benefits of the new covenant by visible and outward signs.

Memory Verse:

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” ~ John 6:63, ESV

Doctrinal Standard: #91 (BC #98)

Q: How do Baptism and the Lord’s Supper become effectual means of salvation?

A: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them or in him that administers them, but only by the blessing of Christ and the working of His Spirit in them that by faith receive them.