And I think mine thrilled a little at the beautiful liberty God brings to religion.
We obviously have very different notions of what constitutes liberty. I believe liberty is found in a Galilean carpenter who, being God and Man, offers Himself to the world on the cross, thereby destroying the power of sin and death and liberating sinners, freeing them to be called children of God. And in that liberty invites us to be fellows and partakers of God's good work to minister to the helpless, without the vain strictures of empty moralism and legalism--but to be free.
What we do in the church--how we worship and pray--communicates what we believe. If you sing lousy church music with lame theology, you're teaching lame theology; if you pray lousy prayers with lame theology, you're teaching lame theology; and if you present God's Word and Sacraments in a lame way you are informing and teaching a lame theology.
Lex orandi, lex credendi. The Church believes what it prays (sings, does, etc).
If one wants to preach that the Table of Jesus Christ is nothing but a token ritual without real significance beyond individualized I-feel-spiritual-ness, then perhaps cheese flavored corn chips and sugar water is fine.
But I believe the Table is Christ the Lord offering Himself, body and blood, true and really, to take us and bring us into fellowship with His Cross, breaking into our lives to crucify our sin, declare forgiveness, and drag us out from the death and misery of this world into the light and joy of His mercy and grace. I really don't care whether one uses leavened or unleavened bread, whether the bread is made from wheat or barley or rye, whether one uses the common cup, dips, spoons, or individual cups; nor do I care whether you use red wine, white whine, or Welch's. But I do believe that using junk food as a way to appeal to some "coolness" factor misses the point entirely.
-CryptoLutheran