What are the different Protestant views of communion?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

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you can always email us your question at questions at core Christianity.com. First up today,

Adriel, we have an email question from one of our listeners named Anthony. He says, how can we be

sure that what Paul was teaching as far as acceptable Christian behavior way back

in the first century is still relevant for us in modern times? Maybe some of the instruction was

for the early church and doesn't apply to us today. I feel like I'm missing something.

Well, Anthony, I wish I had you on the line, so I could ask specifically, you know,

what in, you know, the Pauline writings are you referring to? Certainly, I mean, when we look at

these epistles, I mean, this is Holy Scripture. Now, we can differentiate between something

that's prescriptive for the church at all times and something

that's just describing a particular instance that was related to something that was happening

in the first century. So, for example, oftentimes when we're looking at the book of Acts,

you know, people will read the scene on the day of Pentecost and they'll think, okay,

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