A brief word for evangelicalism, which is so very over-wordy in all its doings:
"Why is the Lord's Supper not celebrated every Sunday in every church (at the very least in the presence of the whole congregation)) - even if this is at the expense of the length of our sermons and our excessive organ music? It would be legitimate liberation for the preacher and the audience...! And occasionally baptism could form the beginning of the whole service (also without an unnecessary flood of words). Would this not make us a comprehensive "church of the Word" - the Word which did not become speech, but flesh?"
Karl Barth
"Would this not make us a comprehensive "church of the Word" - the Word which did not become speech, but flesh?" I am astonished by the truth in those words.
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