Please Christians only. Give me the name of a denomination and what that  church teaches on communion.Pick one
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Communion is the New Testament equivalent of the passover. During the passover celebration the Israelites were looking back to their deliverance from bondage in Egypt and forward to the Messiah, the lamb of God. Today we celebrate communion looking back at Jesus' sacrifice for us when we were delivered from bondage to death and sin and forward to His coming at the end of this age when the Kingdom of God will be established here on earth.\n\n"For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.  1 Corinthians 11:23-26 \n\nThe bread and the cup are spiritual symbols of Jesus' broken body and shed blood. The notion that anyone ever did or ever does actually eat the flesh or drink the blood of Jesus is totally false. Those people who have been brought up in a religious tradition that promotes this false doctrine like to quote Jesus in this passage.\n\nJohn 6:53 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.\n\nWhen you isolate that text from the rest of what Jesus had to say it seems to say that Jesus is talking about actually engaging in what amounts to cannibalism. But when you look at the whole context of that speech you see that Jesus was speaking of the spiritual truth that when a person believes on his atoning sacrifice that they will receive the gift of eternal life.\n\nJohn 6:60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?" 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this? 62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.\n\nGet it? The flesh doesn't do anything, Jesus was talking about spiritual realities. It is like when Jesus made this statement a little further on.\n\nJohn 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" \n\nIf you isolate that text it looks like people would have a river flowing out of their chest or something. But the author goes on to explain, since Jesus apparently didn't in this case...\n\n39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
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The better word would be follow.  Not worship, because we all know that worship is reserved for God/Jesus.  And they follow the Pope and the Saints because it suits them.  Catholicism has always been a denomination for people who need structure, rules, disciplines, etc.  It keeps them focused and leads them down the right path and helps them to make the right choices.  Other denominations have branched out allowing for their members to make their own decisions and they will be guided by a well equipped pastor.
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If what you WANT is "communion with God", you can use anything you want or nothing at all.\nIf you want to receive Christian "Holy Communion" then you use bread and wine.\nIf you want to receive Holy Communion in the ancient Catholic traditions, you get a priest and use unleavened bread and watered wine made naturally from grapes.
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Communion is recieving Christ's Real Prescence in a wafer that has been consecrated INTO Christ's body and soul by one of His priests.\n\nIf you don't recieve communion, you aren't recieving Christ.  It's the whole point to going to Mass.  IMO, just ask a priest or two.
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Christianity.  I go to a CRC (Community Christian Reformed) church in a little town in Ontario, Can.
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That passage is talking about when you gather at The Lords Supper (communion) it helps if you read the whole passage and not just a verse in it. It was very common for people to meet and eat with eachother in fellowship and worship. There is nothing wrong with it, but when you gather together for Communion, its not to get together to pig out.
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(I'm assuming that we're talking about Communion under the appearance of wine, and that we're also talking about a church which believes in the Real Presence. If either of these are untrue, kindly disregard this post.)\n\nWhile it's true that you aren't required to drink a particular amount of the Precious Blood, it still maintains the "accidents" of wine, so it can still make you drunk. And of course, it also tastes like wine. \n\nHowever, because the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ are present in each species - the Host and the Blood - you aren't required to take both. In my church, I'd say only 15% of people actually partake of both species. At least from a Catholic viewpoint, it's absolutely-100%-okay to abstain from the Blood if you feel you need to.
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Catholics are merley one of the many christian denominations.  actually the first one. And with the Orthodox church the only ones for 1500 years.
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Jesus instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper. In the book of Matthew 26:26-29 Jesus says "this is my body" and "this is my blood".  \nIn the 6th chapter of John verse 41 Jesus says " I am the bread that came down from heaven."...the Jews murmured about this. He goes on to say in v.48, "I am the bread of life." He contrasted the manna that the Jews ate in the Old Testament saying that "they died",... "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever..."The Jews asked How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus emphasizes..."Amen, Amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. In v.55-"For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink."\n\nIf this was symbolic, why didn't Jesus explain it as he did with his many parables? Instead he repeated several times and emphazised with "Amen,Amen" Read the 6th chapter of John slowly and pray on it.\n\nIn 1st Corinthians 11:27 you see how St. Paul is teaching about the Last Supper and how the Church members in Corinth should examine themselves, meaning that those who unworthily ate the bread and drank the cup of our Lord will bring judgement on themselves. How could this be if this bread and wine were a mere symbols?\nThere is more going on here than meets the human senses. Remember the Jews in the 6th ch. of John, many of them left Jesus when he did not back down from his explanation and repeating of himself being the bread and blood that they must eat and drink for their salvation.\n\n"The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?1 Corinthians 10:16\n\nThe Catholic Church has maintained the teaching of the Eucharist, the most extraordinary substance on earth, and has not wavered from this at all since Jesus instituted it 2000 years ago.
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Anglicans believe it is merely symbolic where as Roman Catholics believe they are actually consuming the body and blood of Christ. Go ahead and compare!\n\nRoman Catholic: \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist_%28Catholic_Church%29\nhttp://catholic-resources.org/ChurchDocs/Mass.htm\n\nAnglican: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Eucharistic_theology
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At the Last Supper, Jesus said, “Take this bread. It is my body.” Then he said, “Take this and drink. This is my blood. Do this in memory of me.” \n\nCatholics believe this was the First Eucharist (Holy Communion), that through some miracle the bread and wine actually became the body and blood of Jesus Christ.\n\nCatholics reenact the Last Supper during every Mass, where the priest, acting in place of Christ, changes the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.\n\nThis is a great sacrament of thanksgiving and unity of Catholics.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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There are not a lot of differences.  The mainstream CoC generally do not allow musical instruments in church worship.  The other big difference is calvinism.  While there are some exceptions, overall the Baptist denomination is Calvinistic.  The CoC is not Calvinistic.  The CoC believes in free will and that God does not choose who goes to heaven or hell.  Calvinism says that God decides who goes and who does not, therefore Christ did not die for everyone but only for the elect (those He chose to go to heaven).  Calvinism does away with free will.  Calvinism also says a person can never lose their salvation once they have it while the CoC believes one can lose it and turn their back on God.
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Christian protestant churches teach Scripture.  The bible is the authority.\nOrthodox churches teach some Scripture, but much like the Catholic church, they teach traditions as well.  \nThe Orthodox make a big thing about Mary and their Icons as well.
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I think if you follow Christ then yes we should all be united.\n\nEach denomination is just who believes what...I want to belong to the denomination that follows the one true Bible!  There isn't one so that is why I don't claim a denomination.\n\nAll this denominational stuff is just silly.\n\nGod Loves YOU\nHeather :)
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lol,,,,it's that doctrine of men thing.  Jesus said it best Himself when He said, "Ye think that I bring peace?,...Nay , but division."  The Word denomination means division.  Gods WORD tells us all about these divisions within and He tells us who He is pleased with and who He's not pleased with.  Problem is that people that call themselves Christian listen to a man that's a hireling,..paid to preach,..and they don't really get many truth from a man.  IF they were to lay aside all the traditions of men and throw out all the doctrines that men bring in those buildings that they call churches and really get into the WORD of God there would be no arguing between them.  In Revelation 1:20 God tells us that the churches are the candlesticks.  In chapt 2 God tells us out of seven "types" of churches, He is only pleased with two, Smyrna and Philidelphia...for what they taught and the fact that they did not leave their FIRST LOVE (Jesus and The WORD) as the others had.  In Revelation 11 you'll see that only the two that God is pleased with remain standing in the end.
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:}\nOf Course God is alive and well in Michigan\nHere are just a few/ Each denomination has their own. A good idea would be to check with your pastor to see what he recommends.\nhttp://www.heritage-theo.edu/\n\nhttp://www.reformed.edu/\n\nhttp://www.ccbbc.edu/Academics/Faculty.asp\n\nwww.gbcol.edu\n\nhttp://www.mmbi.org/staff.htm
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YES.  According to the good ol' American Heritage Dictionary, a Christian is one who professes "belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus."  I'm a Catholic, and I know this describes me, as I'm sure it describes you as well.\n\nI have come to understand a bit more about why sometimes Protestants say Catholics aren't Chritistian, however.  Hopefully, these will help you understand your friends' logic:\n\n1. The Saints.  It's thought that by praying to saints, Catholics are worshiping them.  This isn't true, of course, for reasons I won't get into here - I'm sure you know them - but you can see how people might think you're not Christian if they thought this was true.\n2. The Bible.  Because Protestants don't have a Church structure the way Catholics do, Protestants often end up paying a lot more attention to the Bible, memorizing passages etc.  It seems to them that Catholics ignore the Scriptures and so the word of Christ.  This isn't true either, but it's a not-infrequent misconception.\n3.  The Eucharist.  Catholics say that the Eucharist is the essence of Christ, present with us.  We worship Christ in and through the Eucharist.  If you're Protestant, you (generally) think the Eucharist is bread, symbolic of Christ, but not actually Christ.  So if they see us worshiping God in the Eucharist, they think we're bowing down to a piece of bread.  You can see how this would seem sacriligious?\n4. Salvation.  Generally, Protestants believe that salvation can only come from accepting Christ as your savior.  Essentially, no matter how good a person is on their own, because they're not perfect, they wouldn't be able to make it to heaven if it weren't for Chirst's sacrifice.    Catholics believe this is true, but that you also have to 'walk the walk, not just talk the talk.'  Salvation is based on the acceptance of Christ as savior combined with good works.  The reason some Protestants have a problem with this is because they're thinking we're discounting the importance of Christ's sacrifice and that we think we could get into heaven on our own. \n\nSo you see, the concept of Catholics not being Christian is generally based on misconceptions.  Try explaining these concepts to your friends (without proselytizing) and try to find out why they think Catholics don't count as Christians.  We all believe in Christ as the source of eternal life.  Maybe you can help them see this.