“I Thank God that I baptized none of you…”  (1 Corinthians 1)

“This do in remembrance of [M]e…”  (Christ in the Gospels)

 

Reader, I attended a “church” recently to get the lay of the land, like Nehemiah taught me to do. This church is close to my home and they claim to be Presbyterians. What I found can be summed up in these word, “Is there an adult in the room?”  That is what came to my mind as I sat there listening to the “edgy Christ-ian music.”  Then the talk…i’ll not call it a message or even a sermon. The talk was disjointed and and hard to follow. The man on the stage, i do not call him preacher or pastor, was just throwing out Christ-ian words.

The man on the stage had his multitude of tattoos (For the record, I have no problem with tatoos). Reader, i did not see a Bible in the room, I call it a room and not a church. THEN…. an overweight man in a robe and wig came to the stage. This over-weight man with robe and wig started pointing at me and the congregation and then pointed to a Cross on the room’s wall. While this muted mime, over-weight Fake Jesus was pointing at the crowd and the Cross, men passed out the Communion elements. The persons in the pews ate the wafer and sipped the juice and there ended the service. Reader, there was no mentioning of the Blood of Christ. There was no mentioning of His Body. There was no self examination. This was not the Lord’s Supper, according to Scripture.

Reader, this is called church-ianity or Christendom. This is not classic Christianity, This is not the faith that came from Christ. This is not what Christ gave Himself for. This is not the Gospel that Paul preached, that Augustine preached That Spurgeon proclaimed, This is not the Gospel that brought many to Christ. The persons simply ate a cookie and drank grape juice. There was no Christ present.

The ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord’s Supper. There is no other rituals period. The ordinances of the church are for the church. The ordinances are to be intimate and very personal.

Baptism is the means whereby we identify with Christ. Christ was killed and died on a Cross, He was then put into a grave, and three (3) days later, He rose from the dead. Baptism is a picture  of what Christ did for His own. The person who is being baptized tells the  account of Calvary.  The person dies, this is the dunking and then the person is in the water for a moment, the person is buried, then the person comes up and out of the water. The new born Christ-ian now identifies with the passion of Christ and Christ identifies with the person baptized. The person has been resurrected and will now live for Christ.

The Lord’s Supper is not just a thing we do. The Lord’s Supper is a most serious matter. Paul attaches death to the Lord’s Supper; if a person is not right with his or her Lord, sickness and weakness may be the persons chastening from the VERY MERCIFUL Lord.

The catholic stage show teaches their victims that the wafer and the wine is LITERALLY the BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST!!! They call it transfiguration. The Biblically illiterate faithful sheep are eating and drinking the Body and the Blood of Christ in their minds. This is not Scripture!!! This is heresy. They would be charged with heresy if they were actually part of Christ’s Body and not (s)atan’s.

The Lord’s Supper is meant to get all things right. The Lord’s Supper is about taking us to Calvary and taking part of His Passion. The Lord’s Supper is a solemn, sober, and grave remembrance of the Sinless Son of God dying for the sinful. The Lord’s Supper is a self examination. This examination should take up some time. One should wait on the Spirit to bring sins back to mind. The Lord’s Supper is time with the Lord. The Lord’s Supper is a new start. The Lord’s Supper is the confession of one’s sins. The Lord’s Supper is a cleansing of your spirit. The Lord’s Supper is another way to identify with Christ. The Lord’s Supper and baptism are the only palpable and tangable means whereby we can “touch” Christ, next to the Bible.

When a “church” just eats and drinks the “Body and Blood of Christ” as a quick nod to their friend and buddy Jesus, Something is wrong.

I know some readers are thinking, who is this guy going around and inspecting  churches?  While some readers are thinking that, this writer is wondering why others are not.