{"id":1144,"date":"2023-06-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2023-12-11T00:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:03:40","slug":"book-review-the-lords-supper-as-a-means-of-grace-by-richard-barcellos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/2023\/book-review-the-lords-supper-as-a-means-of-grace-by-richard-barcellos\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; The Lord\u2019s Supper as a Means of Grace by Richard Barcellos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An excellent, though at times difficult, book on the Lord&#8217;s Supper as more than a memorial meal. Barcellos examines the biblical statements that require us to confess the Supper as a means of grace. It is beneficial to take note of Barcellos&#8217; statement that the book is intended primarily to answer&nbsp;<em>how<\/em>&nbsp;the Supper is a means of grace and not merely&nbsp;<em>that<\/em>&nbsp;it is; for someone who does not currently see that the Supper is a means of grace (yours truly when I picked this book up), this book can still be immensely helpful but requires careful attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcellos could improve the book, in my opinion, by prefacing some of the middle chapters with their relevance to the subject matter; he does spell it out clearly eventually, but at times I felt lost and confused as to why the specific discussion was necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent, though at times difficult, book on the Lord&#8217;s Supper as more than a memorial meal. Barcellos examines the biblical statements that require us to confess the Supper as a means of grace. It is beneficial to take note of Barcellos&#8217; statement that the book is intended primarily to<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/2023\/book-review-the-lords-supper-as-a-means-of-grace-by-richard-barcellos\/\"> continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34,41,13],"tags":[7,14,10,44,8],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-covenant-theology","category-ecclesiology","category-theology","tag-book-review","tag-church","tag-covenant-theology","tag-ecclesiology","tag-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}