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Hello brothers and sisters in Christ.

My name is Ellen and I am the host of Coffee and Bible Times Podcast.

On the show, my guests and I seek to fill your mind with encouragement found in the scriptures

as we seek to inspire you to delight in God's word every day and to thrive in your daily

Christian walk.

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Why do you think there is this fear or suspicion in the evangelical world over sacramental practices?

I think one concern that evangelicals have and that I had was that if you were to engage

in the sacraments, you could make an idol out of them and that they could be something

that you were worshiping instead of Jesus Christ.

That's something that we all have to guard against, that we don't replace Jesus with

something that is religious, that maybe looks like Jesus but actually isn't him.

And we really want to follow the second commandment.

We will not set up idols to worship and so I think that's one concern and I think another

concern that people have is just the physical nature of liturgical worship that it involves

your body.

We're really strong in the evangelical world on what we know are thoughts and our feelings,

reaching the heart and reaching the head, both of which matter to God.

But involving our bodies is another matter and this is one way that we can actually just

honor the incarnation of Jesus Christ that he became flesh.

He took on a human body and in fact went to the cross and was resurrected in a human

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