As believers have communion with their Head Jesus Christ, they likewise have communion with each other. I repeat, with each other, and thus not with other gatherings which assemble for religious purposes.

WILHELMUS À BRAKEL, THE CHRISTIAN’S REASONABLE SERVICE, VOL. 2, 97.

Any implications for Christians in light of American civil religion?

“What happens to our faith, what happens to the church, what happens to the Bible when it gets appropriated for purposes alien to it?”