When a person partakes of communion, what matters to God is that they do so with heartfelt thanks for what Christ did for them at Calvary, and praise and worship Him for this
Whether a person actually believes the bread and wine becomes Christ's body and blood I am convinced is not the important thing by any means, but HOW IN YOUR HEART you come before God in the partaking of communion, that is what matters to God.
Doctrine(apart from salvational issues) will never matter as much as does the heart to God, and the partaking of communion is not a salvation issue
Do ye in rememberence of me
Whether a person actually believes the bread and wine becomes Christ's body and blood I am convinced is not the important thing by any means, but HOW IN YOUR HEART you come before God in the partaking of communion, that is what matters to God.
Doctrine(apart from salvational issues) will never matter as much as does the heart to God, and the partaking of communion is not a salvation issue
Do ye in rememberence of me
The communion/bread and wine is for believers only. Unless a person is born again of God, it doesn't make one bit of difference how many pieces of bread they take. They can believe in the existence of God and believe they are saved but unless they are truly born again they are not part of the body of Christ and therefore cannot partake in the bread and wine in remembrance.
We must worship God in Spirit and in truth.
Actually doctrine is pretty important. If one believes a different doctrine then they are not a part of God's family.
I have been to a couple of the catholic masses in the past. On arrival, everyone bows before a box before they are seated. I later found out it was a box containing the Eucharist, which they believe is Jesus literally in the bread and that they are bowing before Him. I'm sorry if this offends, but it is blasphemy. It is not the real Jesus. Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father. When He died on the cross, He said "it is finished' so this non bloody sacrificial mass is an insult to Him and the sacrifice He made for us.
The Eucharist is wrongly seen as being necessary for salvation. It is one of the sacraments that they believe they must take.
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