Is it sacreligious or unfair to characterize most Nazarene services as memorial observances to an absent god? Years ago an Episcopalian priest told my mother, "We have the cup. You Nazarenes have what's in the cup." Well, now we have the cup. We need to examine whether we have what's in the cup.
If you go to a morgue you will find that everything is in order, nothing objectionable takes place because the people are dead. Are we proud of our perfectly predictable, programmed services because they are as unobjectionable as that which takes place in a morgue?
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