Originally Posted by asaris

Not to be a stickler, but most Christian sects have creeds and sacraments. We just sometimes disagree on how many of each. The difference is that the Lutherans tend to have a 'higher' view of the sacraments than the Calvinistic sects, but a lower view than the Roman Catholics. To use communion as an example, my church teaches that at communion, the bread and wine are symbols of the body and blood. The RC church teaches that they physically become Christ's body and blood (transubstatiaion). The Lutheran church teaches something somewhere in the middle, which I don't really understand, though I know the name (consubstantiation).