Sacraments as Path Aids

The sacraments do not offer a righteousness other than that offered in the preached Word. Rather, because salvation is not exclusively a past event but an ongoing and eschatological experience, the sacraments serve as divinely appointed aids in the path of salvation and eternal life.

 

Mark Garcia, Life in Christ: Union with Christ and Twofold Grace in Calvin's Theology (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2008), 159