Our Church Ordinances

or·di·nance Pronunciation Key (ôr dn- ns)

n.

1. An authoritative command or order.

2. A custom or practice established by long usage.

3. A Christian rite, especially the Eucharist.

4. A statute or regulation, especially one enacted by a city government.

Matthew 28

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Mark 16

16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Acts 10

47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

Romans 6

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

2 Peter 1

4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

1 Corinthians 11

26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.