| The objection is to the inclusion of the "Lord's Supper", as many Protestant denominations call the Eurcharistic service, in the regular Sunday worship. The disgruntled denominations have the Lord's Supper periodically, but do not include it regularly on Sunday, and do not regard it as truly sacramental, since acceptance of Jesus as one's personal savior suffices as a means of grace. (If they take any sacrament seriously, it is Baptism). The division is not strictly between Evangelicals and others, since Lutherans, Methodists, and others who are "liturgical" often consider themselves to be Evangelicals. The temptation is to say it is between "Born Again" denominations and others, but that may not be accurate, since not all Baptists put the same emphasis on the "Born Again" experience that Pentecostals and charismatics do. Still, the division revolves around the centrality of the sacrament for the liturgical denominations worship, and the doctrine of the sufficiency of personal faith, sometimes confirmed by the "Born Again" experience. In the non- liturgical denominations, worship revolves around sermons, hymns, personal testimony, and perhaps even the manifestation of the Spirit, for example, in speaking in tongues..... |
