My Jesus isn’t a cracker.
The curse of the Reformation sprung tens of thousands of wild mushrooms around the great mustard tree. Many of them have withered and died. Others have no real doctrine to speak of of like the now defunct Episcopalian Church. Lutherans have now gay bishops fornicating with one another before the service. Still others are the hucksters like Rev. Jeremiah Wright; Rev. Jesse Jackson; Rev. Al Sharpton (well you get the picture) and then we have connivers like the Joel Osteens and Schullers of this world where religion become a “clappy-happy-foot-thumpin’ event with dollars pouring into their personal bank accounts. Add to this list, the Mormons, The Church of Scientology; Jehovah’s Witnesses and we have a “Christian Tower of Babel.”
Again this turbulent rage, there stands like the Rock of Gibraltar, the Church founded by Christ where His Real Presence: Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity is present in the Holy Eucharist. The focal point of every Catholic Church, and as Cardinal (Blessed) Henry Newman would say the perfect prayer, the Catholic Mass.
St. Thomas Aquinas, the great evangelical doctor calls the consecrated Host, the Bread of Angels: Pange Angelicus, and rightly so.
Neither is the Jesus that Catholics believe in. But the Eucharist found in Catholic Churches at the Holy Mass is, in fact, the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, really and truly present. We have it from Jesus' own lips in the Gospels, and from St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 11--not to mention 2000 years of unanimous Church teaching. That's good enough for me.
You worship God in your way and keep your comments to yourself or share them with some Christian-hating muslim who will take joy in what you say.
Racist remark.
Do you use a 1611, NIV or red letter?
Get it, we’re having a long conversation when I get home.
If you have anything on the fathers of the church, from 1st to 3rd century, bring that too. Unless you know more than those taught by John himself.
Bring your Greek as well.