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To: Pyro7480

Thanks, but....I already have enough to confess on Sunday as it is! :)


169 posted on 02/06/2006 8:33:52 PM PST by TexConfederate1861
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To: TexConfederate1861

Perhaps you might find this at least interesting: I noted at that website that there is a teaching service (after which the children were dismissed) and then blessing of bread and wine followed by eating and drinking the blessed elements, prayers and dismissal. That is not a formal Communion, but it is apparently derived from the same source. What scholars have concluded is that the Last Supper was a 'chaburah' meal, that is, an informal meal among friends (chaber). At such meals anything larger than an olive was blessed by the president before being eaten. After the meal was concluded, a particular glass of wine was also blessed and everyone present drank from it.

What Our Lord did in addition was to connect the blessings of bread and wine to Himself ("Do this in anamnesis of Me"). What Buggman's congregation are doing is exactly what was done at the Last Supper without the connection to our Lord's Person as the salvational element. So far as I can see, for this congregation Jesus is King Messiah, which only equates Him with David as God's Anointed. This does come across as rather Arian.

In Christ,
Deacon Paul+


236 posted on 02/07/2006 6:15:23 AM PST by BelegStrongbow
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