However you may regard the Supper, its significance may have been displayed by an array of responses to the “pandemic.”\u00a0 Our Church of Christ (along with others, it seems) opted to make church assembly available “on line” for those who might enjoy fellowship with others via a computer screen.\u00a0 Hmm. Feed the poor, help the lame, and\u00a0 break the bread via “computer screen”?\u00a0 Well, maybe somewhat, sometimes, but. . . \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ah, heresies come in various forms in different times. This action veers toward that ever-irritating Gnosticism where the physical<\/em> resurrection was covered up with all kinds of imaginary schemes. Getting physical<\/em>, like having babies, requires real people and a real exchange of human devotion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The gathering of God’s people is a physical<\/em> one where people see and serve one another – and break real bread and drink real wine. No fake stuff. Nothing watered down or diluted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let the churches of God deal with the real flesh and blood, the real gathering of God’s people, real service of one another, and real obedience to Him who came down and had fellowship with filthy, diseased, sin-ridden people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 March, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" However you may regard the Supper, its significance may have been displayed by an array of responses to the “pandemic.”\u00a0 Our Church of Christ (along with others, it seems) opted to make church assembly available “on line” for those who might enjoy fellowship with others via a computer screen.\u00a0 Hmm. Feed the poor, help the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,54,18,30,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5804,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}