baptism, which marks the beginning of the Christian life and therefore determines the whole of it; and the Lord’s Supper, whose reiterated celebration enacts ritually what lies at the very heart of Christian life. Baptism is an identification with the death of Christ (Romans 6:3); “crucified with Christ” through baptism, Christians live “by faith in the Son of God, who loved them and gave himself for them” (Galatians 2:20). At the Lord’s supper Christians remember the One who gave his body “for them” so that they would be shaped in his image (1 Corinthians 11:21,
