THE LORD'S SUPPER. LITERAL AND SYMBOLIC
We discuss communion and its purpose.
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I am very thankful for this lesson and discussion! I too was raised with a Catholic influence (we weren't as fervently faithful as some) and sadly see that influence spill over into even IFB churches! It was a very controversial topic when Jesus taught it in John chapter 6 and still is though most "Christians" have NO idea.
I understand your frustration. The hardest demographic to reach with the truth is found in the institutional church. It's important we don't become cynical, but exercise grace.
I don’t feel like I’m very active on here or that you guys know me that well, but I would really appreciate whatever prayers or otherwise anyone may have for me. I’m about to move to Europe to try to get the skills I need to earn my right to stay with my wife in England, and I’m also struggling with constant health issues while attempting to do so. I often feel like it’s an uphill battle, and I’m often distracted by trying to hold my life all together. I’ve been trying new treatment regimen to see if it can make my health issues more manageable, and I hope it will allow me to read the Bible more often again and appreciate more Christian fellowship once more. At any rate, I’m at a point in my life when I have to make a leap of faith and try to do something to be with the person I love. I feel sad about leaving my home in America, but I feel even sadder struggling to build a life with my wife in England. I feel really weird about all of the changes. If my health cooperates, everything is very possible. I really just need to trust God with my life right now, and try to be as faithful as possible. I often don’t feel like I am, but scripture seems to keep reminding me to trust something beyond my own feelings and reasons. It’s amazing how it works that way.
Hi Thomas. I will pray for your health and I know others on this forum will too (I'm no stranger to extreme health problems - kidney failure and cardiac arrest). Also, I pray that you will be permanently united with your wife. Three days a week I go to dialysis and the Lord opens doors for me to comfort others and share the gospel. It's really quite remarkable, as the dialysis clinic has turned into my mission field. After three years of dialysis, I see why the Lord has put me there. The psalmist wrote, " "Thy word is a lampe vnto my feete: and a light vnto my path." Psalm 119:105 Jesus is the word and the word is the Word. Truly, we must learn to see past our feelings and reasons. This is difficult for most, as we often feel that we are victims of our emotions and human intelligence. I have to go now; it's late. The dog woke me up to go out, but I'm still very tired. It seems I'm always fatigued. God bless and remember there are people praying for you.
Thank you for the good fellowship as always. For some reason it’s always more peaceful around people who believe in the words of God.
I have become entirely anti-ritual in my walk. Sometimes I wonder if I go overboard with those around me. My position on baptism is an example where I may be too anti-ritual. Ritual is very alluring. Some of it can put people in remembrance of God/Christ . . if they use the occasion to pray . . but then . . why not just pray?
can you explain more? id love to hear it