This Is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence by Mark Shea & Peter Kreeft & Mike Aquilina

Author:Mark Shea & Peter Kreeft & Mike Aquilina
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Catholicism, 90 Minutes (44-64 Pages), Theology, Apologetics, Teen & Young Adult, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles
Publisher: Christendom Press
Published: 2014-12-12T07:00:00+00:00

Why then, I wondered, was this deed different? If there is anything a good Protestant suspects, it is an intermediary between us and the grace of Christ. Such a thing seems contrary to the very idea of boldly approaching the Throne. It carries the aroma of bureaucracy, waiting lines, and paperwork. Simple, believing prayer ought to be "means of grace" enough, I thought. Anything else—and particularly any ritual—seemed to constitute earning salvation and rejecting the finished work of Christ.

This difficulty is, of course, a classic one. It is often used as an illustration of how Christians can lose the simplicity of the Gospel and become enmeshed in a false spirit of circumcision like the Galatians. In the Protestantism of my roots the notion of the Eucharist (or, for that matter, anything else) as a means of grace looked exactly like the sort of human tradition condemned by Christ.[38] Its origin, we were certain lay in a neglect of the Word of God which had allowed "religion" to creep in like fossilizing sediment and change the living faith to stone. Naturally then, the only solution to the problem was a return to our foundations and a renewing work of the Spirit by the Scriptures. To reverse the situation we must, it was said, let go of the "traditions of the elders" and hold fast to the commands of God.

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