Well-known Christian pastor Francis Chan is raising questions after comments he made about the history of Holy Communion.
The
pastor, preaching on the "Body of Christ and Communion," pointed out
that the way Catholics view communion, a sacrament evoking Jesus at the
Last Supper and part of Mass, hasn't received the same attention and
devotion in Protestant churches.
Instead,
it has been reduced to "just a symbol," Chan complained. Traditionally,
Catholics view it as Jesus' literal body and blood, whereas Protestants
view it as a symbol.
“I
didn’t know that for the first 1,500 years of church history, everyone
saw it as the literal body and blood of Christ,” Chan, author of "Crazy
Love," remarked in a sermon posted online this week by nonprofit SermonIndex.net. “And
it wasn’t until 500 years ago that someone popularized a thought that
it’s just a symbol and nothing more. I didn’t know that. I thought,
‘Wow, that’s something to consider.’”
"What if this was at the center of every Christian gathering in America?" Chan concluded. "I think we'd start seeing the divisions slowly disappear and people start coming together again."
Many on social media said it appears Chan is on his way to converting to Catholicism, but others point out that many Christians believe the same thing even though they don't call themselves Catholic.
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