http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/02/18/do-this-in-remembrance-of-me/ when faith like a child isn't enough Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:49:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/02/18/do-this-in-remembrance-of-me/#comment-64 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:36:36 +0000 http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/02/18/do-this-in-remembrance-of-me/#comment-64 Communion should be eaten as a real meal. I think it would be a lot more meaningful that way. I grew up in the American South, where communion is done pretty much exactly the way you outline it. The irony being that Christians in the American South, at least the Baptist ones, eat shared meals quite often. Why not just call that communion? Isn't that what it was for Jesus and the disciples? Communion should be eaten as a real meal. I think it would be a lot more meaningful that way. I grew up in the American South, where communion is done pretty much exactly the way you outline it. The irony being that Christians in the American South, at least the Baptist ones, eat shared meals quite often. Why not just call that communion? Isn’t that what it was for Jesus and the disciples?

]]> http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/02/18/do-this-in-remembrance-of-me/#comment-63 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:04:48 +0000 http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/02/18/do-this-in-remembrance-of-me/#comment-63 Jen, I think if you pass a baguette and a bottle of wine around, and everyone in your study takes time to remember Jesus, maybe reflect on what it means to eat his flesh and drink his blood, reflect on how man does not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, reflect on how, if we ask, he will give us living water and we will never thirst... all these are perfectly valid ways of remembering him, and frankly would probably mean a lot more than your typical evangelical grape juice & unfrosted Pop Tart ritual. To suggest that we need a priest around--pastor, whatever--for us to partake in the Lord's meal is nothing less than heresy. Jen, I think if you pass a baguette and a bottle of wine around, and everyone in your study takes time to remember Jesus, maybe reflect on what it means to eat his flesh and drink his blood, reflect on how man does not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, reflect on how, if we ask, he will give us living water and we will never thirst… all these are perfectly valid ways of remembering him, and frankly would probably mean a lot more than your typical evangelical grape juice & unfrosted Pop Tart ritual. To suggest that we need a priest around–pastor, whatever–for us to partake in the Lord’s meal is nothing less than heresy.

]]> http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/02/18/do-this-in-remembrance-of-me/#comment-62 Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:36:23 +0000 http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/02/18/do-this-in-remembrance-of-me/#comment-62 Communion can be really agonizing, especially if you're taking the whole thing very seriously (and shouldn't you?) and debating whether or not you can eat that flavourless chunk of bread in good faith. I recall when I was on my last legs at my old church, plagued with guilt over whether to take communion or not, etc. I ended up passing the plate along, and the friends beside me made of a point of noticing, which I found hurtful. While they didn't bring it up after (thankfully), the fact that they were watching was a seriously intimidating thing. And of course there was the snide little voice in my head questioning whether they should be taking it, either. But that's kind of a different subject. Communion can be really agonizing, especially if you’re taking the whole thing very seriously (and shouldn’t you?) and debating whether or not you can eat that flavourless chunk of bread in good faith. I recall when I was on my last legs at my old church, plagued with guilt over whether to take communion or not, etc. I ended up passing the plate along, and the friends beside me made of a point of noticing, which I found hurtful. While they didn’t bring it up after (thankfully), the fact that they were watching was a seriously intimidating thing. And of course there was the snide little voice in my head questioning whether they should be taking it, either. But that’s kind of a different subject.

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