Does Going to Church Make you a Christian?
The other day I came across this statement on a Facebook page:
Standing in the garage will not make you a car anymore than going to Church will make you a Christian
It is true that many attend Mass and then offend God on a daily basis, but hypocrisy goes both ways. Some say we don't need Church to be Christian, and perhaps this is true, but the real question for all Catholics who profess belief in the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist is, "Do we need 'Jesus' to be Christian?" If a Catholic like myself professes, through faith, to believe in and hold sacred, the complete and real presence of Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist and rejects Christ; Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, through denial of this sacrament, is that not hypocritical? For the Catholic, is this not an obvious offense against God? Then the question becomes, "How Christian is the self proclaimed and confirmed Catholic who rejects the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, a very real participation in the perpetual Cross of Christ?”
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