Megachurch Evangelical Pastor Preaches Eucharistic Real Presence
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
A star evangelical preacher has shocked Protestants after preaching on the Real Presence of Jesus in Holy Communion and rejecting the exclusively symbolic interpretation of the Eucharist.
“I didn’t know that for the first 1,500 years of church history everyone saw it [the Eucharist] as the literal body and blood of Christ,” Francis Chan, megachurch pastor announced to his congregation at Epiphany.
“And it wasn’t till 500 years ago someone popularized a thought that it’s just a symbol and nothing more. I didn’t know that!” Chan exclaimed in his homily.
The pastor lamented the substitution of sermon for sacrament by Protestant reformers: “For the first time, someone put a pulpit in the front … before that, it was always the body and blood of Christ that was central.”
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