I wouldn't trust any Christian fellowship without a visible crucifix or at least a cross

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I wouldn’t trust any “Christian fellowship” aside from the Catholic Church.
 
Ah, yes, the bodybuilder crucifix variant.

Seriously, this Jesus looks like comic book Captain America with those lats and abs!

EDIT: I don’t mean any criticism, just thought it was amusing 🙂
 
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I’ve always liked Dali’s depiction of Jesus. Don’t know why he’s so often portrayed as anorexic. He was a carpenter, after all! He would have been well built.
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Don’t forget that many protestants, particularly from Evangelical backgrounds, are terrified of idolatry and are afraid that people might worship the symbol instead of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is a mindset that might be very difficult for a Catholic to understand, but it is almost that they revere the crucified Christ so much that they feel they cannot make any sort of physical representation. I am not explaining it very well, but it is the mindset that I grow up with and understand.
 
I had a Protestant once tell me that having Jesus on the Cross was wrong because He has risen.

He tried telling me that we Catholics are too focused on the Crucified Jesus. I replied simply with this: “No, we when we look at Jesus on the Cross, we are reminded of how much He loves us.”

What Protestants fail to understand is the the crucifix is a sign of LOVE - self sacrificing love. not fear.

God Bless
 
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Angannas said:
Don’t forget that many protestants, particularly from Evangelical backgrounds, are terrified of idolatry
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That’s a problem they need to rectify in that case. If they honestly view a cross with the corpus of Jesus Christ crucified on it as a symbol of “idolatry”, then they need help.
 
We have a Resurrection cross (cross with Christ rising off it) at the Front (back) of our altar, with a processional crucifix that we carry onto the altar, and place in a visible location. Our parish has lots of large open windows (tragically (or at sunset beautifully) not stained glass), and so it keeps with the style of the building (a sort of simplified wooden gothic type), and is appropriate (if entirely extrabiblical). According to a Vatican Directive issued sometime in the last 50 years or so, if possible (without doing violence to the altar and its artistic/structural nature) it is prefered to have the tabernacle in a side chapel, etc. in order to avoid confusion in Mass as to where reverence is due (the word/the actions on the altar, or the tabernacle), and (particularly in more tourist destination churches) to avoid tourists being disrespectful to the Blessed Sacrament. Altars are traditionally highly artistic locations, befitting the honor and dignity of such a place, as such having a piece of beautiful art on the altar doesn’t bother me unless it is disruptive (think of Gothic churches highly sculpted altars, and large amounts of stained glass on those altars).
 
Also St. Paul says “I preach Christ crucified” (emphasis mine).
 
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit
 
mcq72 said:
Wben I grew up there used to be a small Lutheran church on one of our main roads. You could see thru the front glass doors straight to the back of the church, which was lowly lit showing just the altar and cross. It seemed so comforting and cozy. Always had to look thru when driving by at night.
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To clarify, a Lutheran parish that has a cross is not a rejection of the use of the crucifix. Any well-catechized Lutheran knows that it is the empty tomb that symbolizes the risen Christ.
 
I have to be honest…I’m not sure if I’ve worshiped in a non-denominational church that didn’t have a crucifix somewhere.

Also, why do you say fellowship instead of worship? Are you talking about when Christians have fellowship after/before church or during the week?
 
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