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The Church of Eleven22 Statement of Faith on the Lord's Supper

UNDATED (READ 2026) · ACTS 29 / REFORMED EVANGELICAL · DOCUMENT, NOT A PERSON
READ IN A PRIMARY SOURCENO STANCE FITS
NO STANCE — AND WHY

None of the stances fits without misdescribing the figure

Every listed stance was tested against the sources, and each asserts something the figure does not. The reasoning is recorded in full, and it is the content.

THE POSITION

Read in full and deliberately unassigned. The section is substantial — the Supper is for genuine followers of Christ, symbolizes the body broken and the blood shed, is a sign of continued participation in the atoning benefits of Christ's death, and is the occasion on which the church remembers and proclaims that death, receives spiritual nourishment, and signifies its unity. What it never does is say anything about the elements themselves, which is the question this locus asks.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONA contemporary confession rather than a person, filed as a document alongside Westminster and the 1689 for the same reason: it states what it states, and no individual has to be credited with holding it. It was read in full at coe22.com/about on 2026-08-24, where fifteen sections sit inside a collapsed accordion — the /beliefs/ URL returns 404 and only a staging-site copy is indexed by search engines, so the accordion is the only public canonical text found. Ten of eighteen positions are quoted from it. Eight are blank, and the blanks are not evenly boring: election is absent from a confession whose doctrine of sin is thoroughly Reformed, and the eschatological sequence runs from Christ's return to the new earth without mentioning a millennium. This document does not carry Joby Martin's positions. He founded the church and leads it, which makes the confession close to him and not the same as him; a pass on Martin himself would have to come from his own preaching.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

The elements become Christ's body and bloodAQUINAS
True bodily presence in, with, and under the elementsLUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON
Real but spiritual presence, received by faithAUGUSTINE · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · TIM KELLER · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · JOHN OWEN · R.C. SPROUL · WESLEY · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
A memorial and sign; no presence in the elementsM. HEISER · JOHN MACARTHUR · ZWINGLI
Truly the body and blood, with no account of the modeBASIL THE GREAT · CHRYSOSTOM · IRENAEUS
See all 23 figures on the lord's supper →

ABOUT THIS FIGURE

The confession of a multi-campus Jacksonville church founded by Joby Martin in 2012 and belonging to the Acts 29 network — Reformed on sin and justification, continuationist on the gifts, and conspicuously silent on election.

10 OF 18 POSITIONS QUOTED
Everything The Church of Eleven22 Statement of Faith holds →
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"The Church of Eleven22 Statement of Faith on the Lord's Supper", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/eleven22/lords-supper (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/eleven22/lords-supper).

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