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Amen......

Thank you. Thank you for thinking like I do. The whining is getting old.

That said I don't miss people or face to face church etc.... I do miss our best friends but I can deal with that. Heck I miss my wife for months at a time too.

People are generally over rated.

Now tell me no dog... you likely may not survive the statement. LOL

I felt bad about it as a kid,but I always hated going to church. I suspect our church was exceptionally boring though.

Thank you all good folks, let us hope, and pray with the help, of the Lord above we get through this time of trial.

Thanks again.

For better or worse, church isn't about entertaining the flock. It's about offering sacrifice to God.

Well it certainly achieves the sacrifice moniker.

I'd rather break glass with my face.

Genuine question for you based not only upon your comment here but upon a conversation I’ve had w/ a good friend.

Does a church’s doctrinal belief (whether formal or informal) on the matter of true/real/actual/physical/spiritual/non presence have any bearing upon whether, in their actual doing of the sacrament (or ordinance as some prefer) there is in fact a real presence?

That is, if God said the presence of our Lord is real when the sacrament is observed doesn’t that make it so whether the particular group participating recognize it or not?

Or does something in (or absent from) some groups’ observance(s) negate that declaration/promise?

Not trying to be argumentative at all; genuine question that I’ve been debating with a friend of mine & interested in your thoughts.

Grace & peace to you all,

Efw

I believe that a person's relationship with God is very personal. There are many things which may be of help to each person on an individual basis. Some things may help one person, but not another.

Thanks all, even just thinking it helps a lot.

Good question EFW.
The person performing the sacrifice has to possess the authority to do so through Apostolic Succession otherwise it's just crackers and grape squeezings. Simplified, the church had to be founded by one of the Apostles. So IIRC, that's RC, Orthodox, Maronite, Coptic, and probably a couple more I'm forgetting.

The Lord will provide...Have faith.

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In the OT, the authority to perform sacrifices of the priesthood was passed along hereditarily through the Levites from the authority of God through Moses. Jesus opened up the priesthood to all nations through the authority of His Church. He did this by passing his authority to the apostles, clearly breaking the hereditary line with the apostles, only one of which was a Levite.

So I went to church all those times for nothing? Damn, now I'm even more pissed about it!

Praising God is never in vain! LOL!

You'd find it more interesting if you actually put a modicum of thought into it and maybe... Gasp!... participated.