What Exactly is a Sacrament?

[Godfrey]

This is the exact video i needed right now!! Thank you

[AlexPetrusaitis]

Dr. Cooper you rock! Shout from Montana!

[solafidedeum]

Psalm 118:24 “This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”🙏

Let God’s Peace be with you always (To Reader). Praise God always. Amen🙏🙌

[vngelicath]

The point about absolution is a good point. Namely, the debate over categorization is just that. Whether we afford the title of "sacrament" has no bearing on the efficacious reality of a rite: absolution still remits sin whether we give it the "S" title or not.

Likewise, our rejection of the full seven is more a matter of being precise in language and really isn't making a claim about whether these events are effective or empty signs. (For e.g. ordination may have no divinely instituted sign or a promise of _forgiveness_ attached.. but when the church in her freedom lays on hands and prays for the gift of the Holy Spirit, we believe that isn't without effect).

It comes down to how narrow/particular we want to be (is grace only ever "favor", or can it be a more general "gift", etc.) If your definition is "An outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual gift, " then that may give more wiggle-room, but it poses the danger of being too broad.

[paulblase]

One thing that Pentecostals try to do is to say that commands that Jesus gave to the disciples specifically, especially the command to wait for the sending of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, are applicable to all believers. Could you please comment some time on how we distinguish between the commands that were given to the entire Church, notably baptism and the Lord's supper, and those given specifically to the disciples which are not applicable to the entire Church?

[LutheranIdentity-ujyk]

Thank you. What definition do Rome and the East work with to get the number seven? Or is it just convention?

[jgarner]

It seems to me by these 3 requirements that foot washing would also count. Would it not?

[Ben_G_Biegler]

Was Christ's human nature omnipresent during the state of his humiliation?