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I would humbly submit to you both that the very reason Mormonism catches so many milk-level Christians up into their cult of heresies can be traced to the lack of Eucharist in their lives prior to being led astray. Paul warned of this and cautioned believers to 'forsake not the gathering together of yourselves'. I may be in error here (I did not mean the Eucharist to be given to non-saved as a means to bring them to salvation, so I have not made myself clear here; the undercurrent of this exchange discussion has been on the burning in the bosom to verify the hereseies of Mormonism, the presumed veracity of the Book of Mormon to which many spiritually starving Christians fall prey), but my experience with Christians fallen into the cult of Mormonism is that they have been prey because of their drifitng from the spiritual fellowship of fellow believers and failure to be 'fed' on the body and blood of Our Lord.

A study of the Old Testament descriptions of the Temple, the Holy place, will render a comparison of the showbread table to the Word of God found in scriptures which are processed through the mind, not the emotions, not the will, but the mind, and 'be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind'. Keeping up the 'nourishment' for the presence of the Holy Spirit within, is essential to proper functioning of the mind being transformed, and failure to partake of the Eucharist starves the struggling soul/spirit.

We LDS types take the Sacrament (Communion) every Sunday and it is a wonderful uplifting Spiritual blessing. We use bread and water. If you want to argue about why we drink water instead of WINE or grape juice, well, of course, Mormons don’t drink alcohol so there goes the wine, and grape juice is not always readily available in poor places but water is. We take the Sacramento to remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ - His Body and Blood - given for us to save us from our sins. Jesus Christ told us to do it to remember Him and His sacrifice on our behalf.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is my Savior, Lord, Redeemer and I love Him.