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[Willy]

No thanks. I don't relish taking the communion to my judgement.

Thank God the meal is a "foretaste of the feast to come." The feast welcomes you and even heretic liberal pinko commies like me.

 

[Protoevangel]

Thank God the meal is a "foretaste of the feast to come." The feast welcomes you and even heretic liberal pinko commies like me.

Pinko commie? Well, that changes everything. No more arguing amongst brothers here; you're going straight to hell.









Yes, I am just kidding...

 

[SPALATIN]

Pinko commie? Well, that changes everything. No more arguing amongst brothers here; you're going straight to hell.









Yes, I am just kidding...

Dan,

you could have made the last remark just a little smaller. Those MODS have exceptional sight. They can see through just about anything (Except lead of course.)

 

[SPALATIN]

Pinko commie? Well, that changes everything. No more arguing amongst brothers here; you're going straight to hell.









Yes, I am just kidding...

Could you make that last part a little smaller?

 

[Protoevangel]

Really, i wish i could. Instead, i del'td the razz smilie.
Maybe someone will still miss the "just kidding" remark and let us have some giggles at their expence.

 

[Music4Hym777]

Some of us are just crazy conservative! I am partially one of us, but have a ways to go back to my conservativeness (the Jesus seminar took a toll on my conservativeness, just wait til youre calling parts of the Bible pious fiction, thats when youre extreme liberal!)

 

[revjpw]

Thank God the meal is a "foretaste of the feast to come." The feast welcomes you and even heretic liberal pinko commies like me.

Too bad the "meal" you speak of is not the Lord's Supper. I'll stick with that.

 

[Willy]

Even you who thinks that it's not the Lord's Supper we celebrate week after week are welcome. Since it is the meal that anticipates the final future I want to live as if the final future is in part true now. And if that's the case, our primary calling is hospitality to a broken world that is redeemed in Jesus. "All are welcome, friend and stranger."

 

[revjpw]

Even you who thinks that it's not the Lord's Supper we celebrate week after week are welcome. Since it is the meal that anticipates the final future I want to live as if the final future is in part true now. And if that's the case, our primary calling is hospitality to a broken world that is redeemed in Jesus. "All are welcome, friend and stranger."

Sounds like it could be a slogan for McDonald's.

 

[Protoevangel]

Sounds like it could be a slogan for McDonald's.

Or BK -- "Have it your way!"

 

[SemStudent08]

My...how quickly respect for others deteriorates...dimissing someone else's entire church with one demeaning comparison...wow...no wonder I hardly hang around here any more...

 

[Protoevangel]

SemStudent,

The true disrespect is comming much more subtely than you seem to be able to notice, and from a different source than you think it is.

Who here never participates except to distupt others and cause division? There is your source of disrespect and strife.

Edit:
Oh, it is subtle... The serpent is crafty.

 

[SPALATIN]

Or BK -- "Have it your way!"

My favorite was the Wendy's Hot and Juicy but that doesn't really apply here does it?

 

[Protoevangel]

My favorite was the Wendy's Hot and Juicy but that doesn't really apply here does it?

Well... <delete>

 

[Willy]

Sounds like it could be a slogan for McDonald's.

Even the employees of my least favorite restaurant are welcome. Even the advertising executives who drive me crazy are welcome. Even the idealogues and the absolutists are welcome. Thank God it is a table of grace and not works.

 

[ChiRho]

Even the employees of my least favorite restaurant are welcome. Even the advertising executives who drive me crazy are welcome. Even the idealogues and the absolutists are welcome. Thank God it is a table of grace and not works.

Come one, come all! Come to our table! Relax and dine, you, who are weary or cold. This meal is for the oppressed and the distressed; for the weak and the poor; for the pagan, wiccan, muslim, or jew; for the ungodly, agnostic, atheist hindu! Come and partake of our glorious feast, as we pay tribute to our god, by the mark of the beast.

But never, ever call us intolerant!

 

[SPALATIN]

Come one, come all! Come to our table! Relax and dine, you, who are weary or cold. This meal is for the oppressed and the distressed; for the weak and the poor; for the pagan, wiccan, muslim, or jew; for the ungodly, agnostic, atheist hindu! Come and partake of our glorious feast, as we pay tribute to our god, by the mark of the beast.

But never, ever call us intolerant!

Syncretism reigns supreme. Hey Willy you should call David Benke he would take communion at your table.

 

[Willy]

Even the tolerant and the intolerant are welcome. I'm not sure why the Muslim, Jew, Hindu, or Atheist would want to sit at the table. But I suppose if they wanted to, they'd be welcome, too. Can you see Jesus at the Last Supper sharing the bread and wine of the Passover meal saying: Alright, you can eat this bread and drink this wine if you really, really, really, really believe that this bread and wine ontologically are me. If you don't really, really, really believe this, then step outside, because my death is not for you. This meal is all about having the "right" understanding of what is happening. You all are familiar with Greek concepts, so we want you to have the Greek Platonic understanding of reality. Bread is a substance, you know, that has an essence that can be gotten at only through right understanding. Got all this folks? Now if you do, eat and drink. If not, then wait until you got it all figured out. There will be some people who will appear in church history who will have it all figured out. They'll help you. They'll keep you from syncretism." Thanks goodness he said, "Eat this; it's my body. Drink this; it's my blood. Participating in this is participating in the very thing that I'm doing on the cross." Paul put it this way: "when you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes." It's all about his death (a theology of the cross). It's all about his coming (a foretaste of the feast to come).

 

[ChiRho]

Even the tolerant and the intolerant are welcome. I'm not sure why the Muslim, Jew, Hindu, or Atheist would want to sit at the table. But I suppose if they wanted to, they'd be welcome, too. Can you see Jesus at the Last Supper sharing the bread and wine of the Passover meal saying: Alright, you can eat this bread and drink this wine if you really, really, really, really believe that this bread and wine ontologically are me. If you don't really, really, really believe this, then step outside, because my death is not for you. This meal is all about having the "right" understanding of what is happening. You all are familiar with Greek concepts, so we want you to have the Greek Platonic understanding of reality. Bread is a substance, you know, that has an essence that can be gotten at only through right understanding. Got all this folks? Now if you do, eat and drink. If not, then wait until you got it all figured out. There will be some people who will appear in church history who will have it all figured out. They'll help you. They'll keep you from syncretism." Thanks goodness he said, "Eat this; it's my body. Drink this; it's my blood. Participating in this is participating in the very thing that I'm doing on the cross." Paul put it this way: "when you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes." It's all about his death (a theology of the cross). It's all about his coming (a foretaste of the feast to come).

That's great. What's it like, ya know...feasting with Satan? As a child of Adam only, I am sure you really do feel a bond with those who are persistant in their denial of Christ. I can imagine what a Christian would truly hear at your "service":

"In our meal of remembrance today, we are serving the timeless, ever requested forbidden-fruit juice. It is drank to help solidify our future eternal destination. Pack light, it's gonna be hot!"

 

[Protoevangel]

Willy, feed the worldly, worldly food. You will be serving them much more genuinly that way.