Bottom line on so-called sacraments
Bottom line, people who have been regenerated by the word and the Spirit don't have any reason to care about ritual water baptism or the so-called Lord's Supper. Why would we? We've been baptized by the Holy Spirit Himself, and we have union with Christ Himself. Visual parables, or whatever, are for those who need them, but the bar is raised a bit higher than ritual in real Christianity, and any who have had ritual performed on them need to at some point engage the actual word of God, which - the churchians need to admit - is something most self-identified Christians never do in a serious way; including academic Christians and church leaders who engage endless Christian books yet never the actual word of God in a serious way.
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I'm not just sounding like Zwingli here, I'm also sounding like Calvin in his 40th sermon on Ephesians. More meaningfully I'm also sounding like a Christian who has experienced regeneration by the word and the Spirit. God bless preachers who actually proclaim the actual words of the Old and New Testaments (i.e. the actual *words* of the Old and New Testaments) without fear of boring or angering their audience. Zwingli, Luther, and Calvin all did this and stated that it was the *main thing* they had to do.
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