Just as it is necessary that Christ took on flesh for our salvation, so too, it is necessary that he should be in the supper bodily
Jesus doesn’t say, “I give you the way,” but “I am the way.”
This is an excerpt from the sixth chapter of Fear Not: How the Gospel Disrupts Our Deepest Anxieties by Luke Kjolhaug (1517 Publishing, 2026).

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“Who Am I?” edited by Scott Ashmon (1517 Publishing, 2020) is now available for purchase.
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If your congregation promotes and supports “family values,” you should be prepared to take this text head-on.
We already know how the war will conclude. Jesus wins.