Fallen from the Means of Grace

It's stuff like this that is killing the Church in England and in Europe. Give an inch, and Europe's liberal atheist tendencies will take a mile. The level of importance that the modern Church places upon the sacraments is abysmal. The Lord's table is pushed to the margins of church life, covenant children are barred from partaking, baptism is viewed as a right of passage, rather than the sign and seal of God's grace, and Christian attitudes towards marriage are, on a broad scale, lazy at best. These are not rituals, these are not symbols. These sacraments are physical manifestations of God's power and grace in the lives of believers! Why would we skimp on that? It's ridiculous. The Church MUST strive to cultivate a deep respect the means of grace and take hold of them as her own.