I am a follower of Jesus,
the world will call me a Christian,
Jesus now calls me friend and an adopted son and later will call me a good and faithful servant, my local body of Christ calls me fellow Methodist, and if I fit into that box for you, you my beloved ❤ brother can call me a Lutheran.
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@PloughBoy , you can call me what you want, just don't call me late for dinner. Or put another way, if my theological doctrines fit into a box that has a given label that fits best, feel free to call me such, what matters most is that I'm called to meet my Lord and Savior in the air for the marriage supper of the lamb where the feast will be amazing. I hope they won't mind if I bring my hot sauce bottle.
Better to be addressed by how Jesus calls you rather than what fellow church members do.
Indeed, you may find Jesus calling you to depart from what fellow church members teaches like believing Christ's Presence is in the bread & wine at "holy" communion when He does not need to be when He is already within you since salvation and so do heed the warning about those who preach another Jesus or another spirit to receive when communion is only to be done in remembrance of Him as proclaiming the Lord's death for what He has done in having saved us since we had believed in him at the calling of the gospel. That is what is worth remembering at communion.
2 Corinthians 11:1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
I'd say Martin Luther did not finish pruning all dead works from Catholicism when the Luteran church came to be. They should have dropped the term sacrament and "holy" from communion if they wish to be Biblical about what communion is actually for.
I know this is out of place but... He did say to do these things even out of season; hence off topic.
2 Timothy 4:1I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
So do not see communion as a means to come to Him in receiving Him again when He has been in you and with you always since salvation. That is the faith you need to defend and keep and that means not taking communion as if receiving Him again but only remembering Him in proclaiming the Lord's death that it is finished till He comes.
That is all I have to say on the matter of faith. Thank you for your patience and service in the Lord. May He bless you & keep you. May He shine His face upon you & give you His peace.