How is it then that I am born again and filled with the Spirit, but have never been near a Eucharist?
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Because the eucharist ritual is a human construct.
Maybe some people have an innate need for a church like that because the members can’t function without it? They cannot fathom that a stark pew and a Bible can suffice, surely we need rituals, 10,000 saints, feast days and a human leader who is claimed to have the ear of God.
Surely mortal humans cannot have that same access to God?
Of course we do. No one is “closer to God” than anyone else, if we are being truthful. Christians are supposed to pray to God through Jesus. It is the ONLY WAY.