tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post2888658095106570333..comments2024-03-29T09:20:16.581-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Really Real . . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-84565608338478969942021-05-03T21:37:51.640-05:002021-05-03T21:37:51.640-05:00“The brief period in which receptionism was taught...“The brief period in which receptionism was taught.”<br /><br />The Lutheran Church has never taught receptionism. Confessional Lutheran blogs love to imagine this straw man to promote consecrationism, which is identified as error from the plain words of the Formula of Concord to the 1983 CTCR document on the Lord’s Supper. <br /><br />Lutheran cities such as Lübeck and Rostock were disturbed by consecrationist teachings during the Reformation. They had to explain, in contrast, what they taught instead. The Lutheran teaching was that the “cup that we bless is the communion of the blood of Christ, and the bread we break a communion of the body of Christ” only in the reception of the elements. Yet, it was also unheard of “in our churches” to not refer to the body and blood of Christ as present before the reception. Luther famously stated that “we fix no time” for the real presence in the use of the Sacrament, which occurs solely due to the almighty promise and power of Jesus Christ himself. All else is sophistry and human speculation. This is why Chemnitz prefers the phrase “distributed and received” when speaking of sacramental use of the body and blood of Christ, to convey the breadth of the same teaching of “our churches.”<br /><br />We have way too many LCMS pastors that, in the interest of broadening our teaching to embrace “the catholic tradition” act as though Smalcald Article VI, 1 is all that we have to say on the matter, and that SA VI, 5 doesn’t even exist. These pastors basically teach transubstantiation and seek to make Lutherans feel sinful for any leftover wine in a disposable communion cup. Because that’s still Jesus’ blood and you’re throwing it away, right? Well, according to sound Lutheran doctrine, no...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com