Mysteries of God and Means of Grace

I had, without malice but with plenty of ignorance, turned the Sacrament of Christ's doing and dying into my sacrament of feeling and remembering. Why did I even need bread and grape juice to do that?

Michael Horton is the J. Gresham Machen professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California (Escondido, California), host of the White Horse Inn, national radio broadcast, and editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. He is author of many books, including The Gospel-Driven Life, Christless Christianity, People and Place, Putting Amazing Back Into Grace, God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology, and Too Good to be True: Finding Hope in a World of Hype.

Issue: "How Do We Receive Christ: God's Sacraments or Ours?" May/June Vol. 6 No. 3 1997 Pages 3-14

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