Thanks for letting me know... and due to the synodicity, they would hang together better across local lines.
I guess the question is whether they’d let me take their communion. I believe spiritual presence to be more, not less, than physical presence, so I believe my belief to go beyond the classic Lutheran one about the communion, at least as some of those churches put it. But again we’d need to look at what Luther said. I can go with the “Upon, in, and under” consubstantiation description. Which is exactly what spirit would do with something physical it occupied. Sorry to get into the theology but sometimes we can’t avoid it when talking about these kinds of things.
> whether they’d let me take their communion. ... Sorry to get into the theology
Redneck, you are a gentleman and a scholar. The theology is what it’s about. Visit and talk to the pastor. That is actually the polity of the synod. And be open to what he tells you, if you can. The Lutheran position is both as simple and as profound as it can get. Simple because is means is, and profound because nobody can explain it. The Lutheran doctrine only wants to be the Scriptural doctrine held with respect (not doctrinal deference) for church history.
Luther was actually a theologian; Zwingli not so much. And you and I both probably are wary of the cruft (to say the least) piled on by the Roman church at least since Trent.
Smart man you are, Redneck.