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[quote=Anonymous]I was raised ELCA Lutheran, although I remember very little of Luther's Catechism. But one of my cousins ended up in the Methodist church, and when I went to her funeral I learned some things about Methodism I found interesting at the time. The bread and wine in communion are apparently symbolic of the body and blood of Christ, not the actual presence (which I think Lutherans believe). It also seemed like the Methodists have particular emphasis on welcoming strangers and creating community.

I spent time in high school as a pianist for an Assembly of God gospel group--it was a family my parents knew, who had left the Lutheran Church to become pentacostals. Services at the Assembly were scary to me at 14-15, I was terrified I'd ended up speaking in tongues or collapsing in the aisle (being struck by the spirit). Lutherans are very skeptical about that because a) when the apostles received the gift of tongues, they spoke in languages people around them could understand and b) you can't be certain that it's the Holy Spirit doing that, it might be deception by the devil.

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