Tag: Presbyterian
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Apple juice for communion? Why we can’t do communion our own way
27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats…
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Presbyterian Church in America adopts Nashville Statement
This week, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) voted to endorse the Nashville Statement. The Nashville Statement is a series of affirmations regarding traditional Biblical views of sexuality and gender and was created by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. To give a sense of what the Nashville Statement discusses:…
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The first time I ever went to church (10 years ago)
For a long time, I had considered going to church. As someone who had never gone before, religion fascinated me. As someone who was always a thinker, I always believed that there just had to be something out there. We had to have come from some sort of Surpeme Being. For part of high school,…
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My most important leap: 8 years (or two leap days) ago today
My family never went to church when I was growing up. But I vividly remember, from a very young age, believing that there had to be some sort of higher power. To me, it always seemed logical. When I was in high school, I started to do some reading on various religions. Judaism really appealed…
Josh Benner 