ok, here is somthing i never had an answer to...

at the last super, when jesus broke the bread, and served the wine/blood he said

"do this in memory of me"
catholics do why dont christians? seems simply put to me, but is there a different way christians inturpert this?

I've been to several evangelical churches where they eat bread and drink wine as part of the service. The difference is that Catholics believe in transubstantiation.

Not all churchs do, I go to a non-denominational church and we still do it.

its not only catholics that do it though.

Exactly. Christians do the bread/wine too, but see it as a symbol of remembrance, rather than it actually turning into actual physical flesh and blood when you consume it. Catholicism is more of a "religion" with rituals, etc...

This post was edited by Torm1 on Apr 29 2011 01:19pm

I pray every day TO the FATHER in the name of JESUS and that my prayer be in accordance with His "Father's" will. I am a Christian, a follower of Christ.

The Lords Prayer..

non-denominational Christians unlike Catholics have no leader. We are not corruptable as a whole.
Strike one of us down then u might as well strike all of us down.

As far as Protestantism goes, I would recommend the words of E.M. Bounds, Andrew Murray, Charles Spurgeon, and R.A. Torrey.

Studying prayer is probably one of the most rewarding things I have done.

I agree with an above poster, who said that either Catholic or Protestant, you can pray as much as you like and miss out of having relationship with God.

Just say what you feel. God listens.

Prayer is speaking with and listening to God.

I get the spiritual ritual, started by Jesus, is the physical action that has a spiritual response. It is similar to how the Ark of the Covenant, was a physical representation of the one in His throne and now we, who follow Him are living, breathing representatives of His presence. In any case, ultimately semantics means little, when we have a clear illustration from Him.

The time of remembrance, is directly out of the Passover Seder. In it's context we can glean understanding but out of our freedom in Christ, we can celebrate our thankfulness to Him as the redeemed, in any moment we are led to embrace Him.

If you study a bit, you will find Messianic Jews change their Seder to incorporate what Yeshua(Jesus) said there. You will also find the early Church leaders remembered Him, every time they met. I think I recall Mother Teresa partaking of the Lord's table every morning!

What if we all started our day in such a manner!?

Shalom