Why must a person be baptised before he can partake of the Lords Supper?
Baptism is a sign of the means by which a believer is saved from sin. Hence it only needs to be done once, to symbolise his entrance into salvation and the beginning of his new spiritual life. When he is saved, he does not need to be saved again and again. The Lords Supper is a sign of the means by which a believer is sustained in his new spiritual life. Hence it is done repeatedly, to symbolise the continual nourishment he receives as he grows into the image of Christ. Since sustenance must come after salvation, a person should first be baptised, and after that he should regularly partake of the Lords Supper. If a baptised person does not partake of the Lords Supper, he is symbolically denying himself the sustenance that his new spiritual life needs. If a person takes the Lords Supper before he is baptised, he is symbolically trying to sustain a spiritual life that does not exist yet. However if a person takes the Lords Supper without being baptised yet but he did it in ignorance, the
