Vaid Ordinances of the Church

An English born preacher (Edwin Fesche, now of Baltimore) taught this writer years ago that to be a valid ordinance of the Christian church, an observance had to be three things:

1. Instituted by Christ Himself,

2. Practiced in the Acts of the Apostles,

3. Explained in the Epistles of the NT.

Only two ordinances meet these three criteria: baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

Arthur Farstad, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, Spring, 1991, p. 7