grace-based Archives - Bible Advocate Advocating the Bible, representing the Church, and glorifying the God of grace and truth Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:33:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://baonline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/05/cropped-file-32x32.jpg grace-based Archives - Bible Advocate 32 32 What’s in an Ordinance? https://baonline.org/whats-in-an-ordinance/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 23:59:01 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=4892

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The Church of God (Seventh Day) has observed two ordinances since our inception in 1858. We have always baptized new converts by immersion in water, in the name of Jesus. But our observance of the Lord’s Supper service evolved from “whenever” to annually. Unfortunately, our observance of the Lord’s Supper service has been beset by […]

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]]> The Commandments and the Church https://baonline.org/the-commandments-and-the-church/ Thu, 10 May 2018 23:58:00 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=4652

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In 1664, Stephen Munford introduced the Seventh Day Baptist Church and its observance of the seventh-day Sabbath to North America. Nearly two centuries later, the Sabbath was introduced to, and accepted by, a portion of William Miller’s failed Adventist movement. A member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church named Rachel Oakes convinced Frederick Wheeler, a […]

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