Clearly, many Lutherans see full communion with the Episcopal Church as a costly decision that threatens Lutheran identity. |
Apparently, he thought it looked a lot like the cups we use at church for communion. |
Staying here is a journey into a bygone era, when life moved at a gentle pace and communion with the self was as easy as winking. |
If communion cups were a danger, he said, there would be cases of mass infections. |
Or that communion with God is but a transcendental, emotional state of self-negation and acceptance? |
There he cleansed the temple, prefiguring his great atonement for sin, making us fit for communion with God. |