The church is about sound doctrine (per the Scriptures and the Creeds), indeed.\u00a0 But it is also about the gathering: the “breaking of the bread.”\u00a0 There is a special presence of God in the “sacrament” – the “communion” or “supper.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don’t accomplish such by mail or TV or “on-line.” We gather to break the bread, to confess our sins, and have forgiveness proclaimed. We do so under the authority of pastors\/elders. There is order. There is government and submission to authority and true fellowship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The church is about sound doctrine (per the Scriptures and the Creeds), indeed.\u00a0 But it is also about the gathering: the “breaking of the bread.”\u00a0 There is a special presence of God in the “sacrament” – the “communion” or “supper.” We don’t accomplish such by mail or TV or “on-line.” We gather to break the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,9,57,54,18,23,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958"}],"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=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6959,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions\/6959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}