Did the very earliest Christians think about the Eucharist like we do?

Joe Heschmeier is next.

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This week, we talk a bit about the Eucharist and one of the enduring myths

of Christian history is the myth that there's some kind of a kernel

that out of that kernel develops and grows a church

that really almost in a certain sense has forgotten the kernel.

You'll get the person, the scholar who will say,

Jesus was some kind of itinerant Jewish preacher.

We don't really know that much about him.

There's a few things here and there we might be able to say with certainty about him.

But all this stuff just grew up after him.

And thus we deny the Lordship of Jesus.

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