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    Gift of Tongues

    There is a lot of nonsense on youtube.
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    Trends on church attendance

    Evidently some think that gathering at home or watching a video is their way of complying with the verse in Hebrews 10.
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    International Idiocy.

    The person under discussion in that phrase is Kim Jung Un.
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    The early church fathers and a number of non-christian witnesses testify that the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. If the word "become" means nothing then okay. No "conversion" of the bread and wine takes place. Yet "become" means something and the earl church fathers thought...
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    That is where we differ. I say it is not bread despite its appearance - which remains exactly like bread. If we go no further and hazard no further explanation then all we have is a difference about words. But since words are such a feature of theology and people have over the centuries...
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    If it is the Lord's body can it be bread like other breads that are not consecrated?
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    Transubstantiation is relevant as an "apt expression" for explaining what happens at consecration. Beyond being apt It has no effect on the doctrine of the real presence. Besides the word "Transubstantiation" does not mean that the properties of the consecrated host and the consecrated wine...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 4

    Have a good day, friend Confessional Lutheran :)
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    The "how" thing is largely irrelevant, I agree. I do not really know why answering "how?" became important in the middle ages. Maybe there was something going on in the universities to make people think it mattered. Anyway the Catholic Church ended up giving official support to the use of the...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 4

    I was doing some grocery shopping just a minute ago. I order online. Then I decide later if I want it delivered (usually costs $4) or if I will pick it up (that's free and they put the groceries in my car for me).
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    Trends on church attendance

    People moving away from attending meetings and replacing it with "attending" a video broadcast is part of what accounts for some decline in meeting attendance. "House churches" accounts for some of it too. And the increasing movement towards being "spiritual" but not "religious" also accounts...
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    Trends on church attendance

    There are some television-only "churches" in existence. Their members "attend" by watching the broadcast.
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    Trends on church attendance

    Your post verifies what I thought was the case. There is no need to attend meetings when one's faith tradition has symbolic meaning for sacraments and nothing more.
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    I liked the song :)
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    Your Favorite Comedy Bits

    This is painfully hilarious.
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    Heh heh heh friend Confessional Lutheran, it is amusing to watch the Lutherans make such a hash of Protestantism outside of their faith tradition :smirk: PS: Francis can be a rather confusing chap at times when newspapers translate his Italian words into English ... mind you, he might be...
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    Trends on church attendance

    Saying "It is very difficult (impossible really) to receive holy communion over the internet." addresses why the decline can be influenced by video attendance in faith traditions that hold to a "real yet spiritual presence" and have communion only occasionally, perhaps once a month or once a...
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    Transubstantiation is a word to explain the real presence it is not a replacement for it nor a substitute for it. The Church teaches that "transubstantiation" is an apt description of what happens when the bread and the wine are consecrated. Transubstantiation by Frank J. Sheed Besides the...
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    So many words and so little content. Is does not mean "in with and under" Is means is. This is my body. This is the new covenant in my blood.
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    Trends on church attendance

    It is very difficult (impossible really) to receive holy communion over the internet.
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