NOMAD believes that there are two direct ordinances that Jesus gave the church to actively participate with.
As a community we at NOMAD believe in and practice believer’s Baptism. We believe that baptism is to follow an individual’s conscious repentance and personal confession of faith. We believe that believer’s baptism accomplishes two things: First, being a symbolic connection of the individual to Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection. Second, a public display and confessing of one’s faith.
As a community we at NOMAD participate in Communion (the Lord’s Supper) whenever we gather. We believe that Christ did what he did so often and took the common elements of bread and wine at a meal and made them a symbolic representation of what he did on the cross. He chose an element so common to the daily gathering of his followers that it became a permanent reminder of what he had done whenever they gathered together for a meal.