What we do on the Lord’s Day in God’s presence defines who we are. We are most authentically the Church when we gather around the Word, the Table, and the ordained minister on the Lord’s Day in corporate worship. St. Paul makes a telling remark when he rebukes the Corinthian church. He says, “In the following directives I have no praise for you, since you come together not for the better, but for the worse. In the first place, I hear that when you come together as the church, there are divisions
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