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Originally Posted by InChristAlone
The LRC doesn't have apostolic succession. It's not a God-established and ordained church but a man-made church, the church of Witness Lee.
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Right. So you trace the authority of your institution back to the founder. But, then so have the Roman Catholics and it hasn't kept them free of world historic blunders. How do you view that? Does your church have a monopoly on GEP?
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Therefore, what they eat and drink is just grape juice and bread. Besides, I don't know how the LCR looks at the Holy Communion. For many Protestant churches, it's just a ritual of remembrance or a ritual remembrance. But Jesus didn't say that it must be a mere ritual for the sake of remembrance. "Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day." (John 6:53-54, NIV) In the EOC, the Holy Eucharist (Communion) is called the “sacrament of sacraments”. The Eucharist is the center of the Church’s life. Everything in the Church leads to the Eucharist, and all things flow from it. It is the completion of all of the Church’s sacraments—the source and the goal of all of the Church’s doctrines and institutions.
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How does that work? Do you believe in transubstantiation?