Shelby Miller Chapter 47- 49 vocabulary

Eucharist: Another term for the Lord’s Supper (from the Greek εὐχαριστία, G2374, “giving of thanks”).sacrament: In Protestant teaching, a ceremony or rite that the church observes as a sign of God’s grace and as one means by which those who are already justified receive God’s continuing grace in their lives. The two Protestant sacraments are baptism and the Lord’s Supper. In Roman Catholic teaching, there are seven sacraments, and they are understood as a necessary means of conveying saving grace.ex opere operato: A Latin phrase meaning “by the work performed.” In Roman Catholic teaching the phrase is used to indicate that the sacraments, such as baptism, work in virtue of the actual activity done, independent of the subjective attitude of faith in the participants.immersion: The mode of baptism in the New Testament in which the person is put completely under the water and then brought back up again.paedobaptism: The practice of baptizing infants (the prefix “paido-” is derived from the Greek παῖς, G4090, “child”).believers’ baptism: The view that baptism is appropriately administered only to those who give a believable profession of faith in Jesus Christ.