The historic confession of the Church is that Jesus Christ is Personally present in Word and Sacrament. Christ is there, in His Person, in His Word, and He is there, in His Person, in His Sacraments.
So that the baptized Christian has been washed and clothed with Christ, hears Christ's word, and partakes of Christ's own body and blood in His Supper, etc.
Daily I encounter Christ in His Word. Whenever I read or hear the Scriptures, whenever His commandments are preached, whenever His Gospel is proclaimed. He is there always in the reality of my baptism. He is there in His Supper, the Holy Eucharist.
Jesus Christ, in the fullness of Himself--the full God-Man--begotten of the Father before all ages, and born of Mary. He is present and real in the Means of God's grace. Present also through His Spirit who dwells in all the redeemed.
So by God's grace His Son dwells in me, and I in Him.
It's not about mystical experiences of the Divine. But about the real and living Jesus Christ. The Incarnate God-Man, the Son of God and the Son of Mary. Who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. Who on the third day rose again. Who ascended into the heavens, where He sits and reigns at the right hand of the Father. He who will come again as judge of the living and the dead, who will raise all flesh, and whose kingdom shall never cease. This is the Jesus who is Lord and Head of His Church, and who is present for and with His Church in the sacred ministry given to the Church: in Word and Sacrament; and through His Church present in, with, and for the whole world.
-CryptoLutheran
