Jesus Christ is the head.
Peter was the first vicar. Feed / tend / feed my sheep. The keys. Hold / Bind.
You know, all that stuff.
I don’t see anywhere in your services where people’s sins are forgiven by an authorized cleric, as we are instructed to do. I don’t see anywhere in your services where you consume the Body and the Blood of Christ.
Does your particular church baptise with water and the Holy Spirit, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit? Do you do it 3 times?
How much praying do you do in your services? How much Scripture do you actually read? The Sacraments are all there in the Bible. Why is it that you cannot pick them out?
“Why is it that you cannot pick them out?”
Because what you are saying isn’t there.
- Peter wasn’t the first Vicar and that is not found in the scriptures.
- Authorized clerics don’t forgive sins, God does through the blood of Christ.
- We don’t consume the body and blood of Christ. We partake of a memorial meal of unleavened bread and grape juice, just as Jesus did with his disciples on the night he was betrayed.
- We baptise IN water, full submersion, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit for teh remission of sins. We only do it once because that is all that is required.
- Prayers every service.
- Just guessing, but much more than you ever have.
Do yourself a favor and quit relyng on what your priests/bishops/monseignors/cardinals/popes tell you is in the scriptures and read them for yourself.
Christ, not men, baptizes in the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8)
The baptism of the Holy Spirit took place not many days after Christ's ascension. (Acts 1:5)
"For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."
Not many days later came the famous day of Pentecost which we read about in Acts 2.
Since it's no longer "not many days hence" from Christ's ascension and we do not see the events of Acts 2 such as a mighty rushing wind and tongues like as fire, then we can know that the baptism with the Holy Spirit does not take place today.