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How and when did the Lord's Supper get transformed into a thimble of grape juice and a cracker and Olympic synchronized eating and drinking?
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You can find a history of it in this book:
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Smellin Coffee said:You can find a history of it in this book:
Thank you. I'll look for a copy on Amazon or something.
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T-Bone said:
Grape juice and a creepy-a$$ cracka. New tradition.
Castor Muscular said:
Well, with the racial make up of so many churches (at least in the Chicago area) being racially divided (including my own church, I'm sad to say), thus a large number of "white majority" churches around, there could very well be a creepy-@$$ cracka or two hiding in their midst.
Just a thought. Carry on.
At my church (TEC & ELCA), we use real wine and real unleavened bread (homemade and organic). 8)
I don't necessarily think that makes our communion more valid than using grape juice and crackers. But it feels more authentic that way, closer to the actual Last Supper.
I don't necessarily think that makes our communion more valid than using grape juice and crackers. But it feels more authentic that way, closer to the actual Last Supper.
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Castor Muscular said:
I don't know, and I don't care, but I'm glad:
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[*]I do not like grape anything so I'm glad to remember my Saviour with just a thimbleful.
[*]I am exceedingly glad we do NOT use communal communion cup.
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patriotic, I'm with you...I'll take my thimbleful, thank you very much! I don't have health insurance, so I can't afford to catch a bug from a communal cup.
My church does not have the Lord's Supper every week, and I'm OK with that. It's particularly special to me when my church celebrates it, since we don't do it every week.
Usually, we, the media crew (and anybody else in the balcony) serve ourselves, with the trays prepared and delivered prior to the service. But one time when we did celebrate, the media crew did not get served. Our usual trays were not there...and it killed me! I so look forward to this special time!
Reading some of the posts (not necessarily on this particular thread), of church groups not being included in the Lord's Supper grieved my heart. The Lord's Supper is such a beautiful, powerful, yet poignant remembrance. To deny a believer of this remembrance is, in my opinion, a tragedy.
When I was a youth, I sat in many a Catholic church service as a non-catholic...watching the Eucharist, knowing that I wasn't "eligible" to participate, but still seeing the beauty and power of it...I knew I could never be a Catholic...I considered myself a "protestant", not really knowing what that actually meant, but I knew I wasn't baptized. I also knew that I wasn't "churched" and I definitely knew something was missing...
...Years later, after God led me to my church and I was (thankfully) baptized, I knew I could participate in the Lord's Supper...finally! It was (and now is) so special to me...
My point? You preachers out there...don't forget to include those not on the main floor of the main service! Media services, nursery workers, children's church...and don't forget shut-in's, prison ministries, etc...and when you offer the Lord's Supper off-site, do it in as public a venue as possible...
...because unsaved people (like I once was) who witness the beauty and power of the Lord's Supper may long for what they know they can't participate in, so they move closer to trusting in Christ...maybe not today, and maybe not in your Sunday service, but at someone's service in the future...
...the Lord's Supper plants seeds.
My church does not have the Lord's Supper every week, and I'm OK with that. It's particularly special to me when my church celebrates it, since we don't do it every week.
Usually, we, the media crew (and anybody else in the balcony) serve ourselves, with the trays prepared and delivered prior to the service. But one time when we did celebrate, the media crew did not get served. Our usual trays were not there...and it killed me! I so look forward to this special time!
Reading some of the posts (not necessarily on this particular thread), of church groups not being included in the Lord's Supper grieved my heart. The Lord's Supper is such a beautiful, powerful, yet poignant remembrance. To deny a believer of this remembrance is, in my opinion, a tragedy.
When I was a youth, I sat in many a Catholic church service as a non-catholic...watching the Eucharist, knowing that I wasn't "eligible" to participate, but still seeing the beauty and power of it...I knew I could never be a Catholic...I considered myself a "protestant", not really knowing what that actually meant, but I knew I wasn't baptized. I also knew that I wasn't "churched" and I definitely knew something was missing...
...Years later, after God led me to my church and I was (thankfully) baptized, I knew I could participate in the Lord's Supper...finally! It was (and now is) so special to me...
My point? You preachers out there...don't forget to include those not on the main floor of the main service! Media services, nursery workers, children's church...and don't forget shut-in's, prison ministries, etc...and when you offer the Lord's Supper off-site, do it in as public a venue as possible...
...because unsaved people (like I once was) who witness the beauty and power of the Lord's Supper may long for what they know they can't participate in, so they move closer to trusting in Christ...maybe not today, and maybe not in your Sunday service, but at someone's service in the future...
...the Lord's Supper plants seeds.
