You couldn't make it up dept no.87: the sermon will not be televised

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From www.floridatoday.com:
A church giving sermons about sex may have to find a new home. Brevard Public School District's risk-management department has threatened to boot New Hope Church out of Sherwood Elementary because of a worship series titled "Great Sex for You."

Church leaders mailed 25,000 fliers, asking residents "Is Your Sex Life A Bore?" The three-week program kicked off inside the school auditorium. Pastor Bruce Cadle had said the Christian church has been "shamefully silent" on the taboo topic.

Mark Langdorf, the director of risk management, says the mailers generated complaints, were not appropriate for elementary school children and shouldn't be used to advertise the sermon in the school.

Langdorf says the church's lease contract is under review.

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The universal presence of God is not something anyone - or at least any Christian - disagrees with. My point is however that, yes, the older Christian churches (bear in mind that this not a Catholic peculiarity) do hold that the consecrated wafer and wine really are God, His flesh and blood. That is what He said and that is what we believe. That was, incidentally, what caused the final break between Luther and Calvin at the notorious Marburg conference. Luther kept repeating: "This-is-my-body!" and argued that if Jesus' words could be held to contain a different meaning than their own plain one, then you might as well read them to mean: "The fox ate the hedge-sparrow".