- Jan 21, 2022
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- Lutheran
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- Married
I am new to the area where I live and have visited each Lutheran church and several Baptist churches in the area. The Lutheran churches are less traditional and conservative than the one I came from and none of them use the King James Version of the Bible which I have used all my life.
I went to a small free-will Baptist church that uses the KJV and the preaching was great and just what I needed to hear, unlike what I heard at the Lutheran churches. I attended Bible class and church and never heard a word that I disagreed with. It was truly faithful teaching. In addition, the people were very welcoming and friendly. I continued to attend this church and listened to my old church online. I read the Bible every day.
Ultimately, the Baptist church had a communion service and said that the bread and wine "represented" the body and blood of Christ, whereas as a Lutheran I believe that the body and blood of Christ is in, with, and under the bread and the wine--it is a special gift of Christ and not merely a remembrance. I spoke with the Baptist pastor and he confirmed their believes--he said it would be "impossible" for the body and blood of Christ to be contained within the sacrament.
I stopped going to the church, and I miss it a lot. Would it be wrong for me to continue going there and just set aside that I know we don't agree on the sacraments?
I went to a small free-will Baptist church that uses the KJV and the preaching was great and just what I needed to hear, unlike what I heard at the Lutheran churches. I attended Bible class and church and never heard a word that I disagreed with. It was truly faithful teaching. In addition, the people were very welcoming and friendly. I continued to attend this church and listened to my old church online. I read the Bible every day.
Ultimately, the Baptist church had a communion service and said that the bread and wine "represented" the body and blood of Christ, whereas as a Lutheran I believe that the body and blood of Christ is in, with, and under the bread and the wine--it is a special gift of Christ and not merely a remembrance. I spoke with the Baptist pastor and he confirmed their believes--he said it would be "impossible" for the body and blood of Christ to be contained within the sacrament.
I stopped going to the church, and I miss it a lot. Would it be wrong for me to continue going there and just set aside that I know we don't agree on the sacraments?