We are traveling this weekend and so visited a church that has weeknight services. Live by the cliche, die by the cliche. There was nothing wrong with it, really. Nothing much to be wrong about. They said "represents" for both body and blood at communion, so I guess that's wrong. I'm not sure even that is wrong, however - just a huge undersell. There was a symbolic moment during the closing music. On a huge screen behind the band, there was a projection of drone footage over an evergreen forest Off in the distance you could see a frozen lake that we were flying toward. It looked interesting and I wanted to have a look at it, to see if there were towns or camps of bobhouses there. After a couple of minutes it occurred to me that we weren't any closer. I looked at the nearer, moving footage and saw that it was on repeat, spliced and overlaying a still photo of the horizon. I nodded resignedly. I wanted to see the lake.
"represents" um... Put words in Jesus mouth, did they?
ReplyDeleteIt would be strictly wrong at a Catholic service, but my understanding is that it’s technically correct from the perspective of many Protestant denominations.
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