Immigration Crackdown Creates Fault Lines Among Baptists

[mwooldri]

10. I guess us Anglicans/Lutherans/etc are slacking ehehehe :)

Once upon a time I was in a Holiness church... Independent, no structure as such, except the pastor owned the church. Eucharist was celebrated rarely. Even allowed me, a lay "children's church teacher", to celebrate the Eucharist with saltine crackers and grape juice as part of "Children's Church"... That I got thrown into "leading". Poorly IMO. How a good ol' Church of England soul like me ended up there I don't know. I ended up with work that worked every Sunday, so no church activities possible. When the pastor took a political turn I drifted away. When she passed away and the successors seemed to turn hardline... I went low contact.

But to get back to the main topic ... It's through the grace of Jesus that we're even allowed to have Eucharist. Not even the preacher/priest/celebrant is free of sin enough in the eyes of God to be even worthy. And as part of the Communion service one confesses their sins and prays for forgiveness. So at least for that moment, the "illegal immigrant" who has broken the earthly law is supposed to have confessed to God their "sin" and thus should have received the okay to receive communion, unless the congregant feels God hasn't answered their prayer of forgiveness and doesn't go up. Anyway, this is my take on it.... I'm not clergy, I don't have a full certified religious education... Just my understanding of God and Jesus as I see them. And I may well be wrong.