I was at the Good Fiday Youth Rally at Bayview Glen this weekend, and towards the end of it I found myself at the back of the church praying and talking to my friend Curtis. The reason Curtis and I were at the back is because communion was being served. He didn't know if it was alright to have it twice in a day, and I thought it was being presented as a tradition removed from it's significance. It's interesting how many different thoughts and perspectives there are on a simple partaking of bread and grape juice.It's something I've thought about a lot recently. I think the bread and wine are important symbolically, though I don't think they are necessary to have "communion". I think the most important part is what's going on inside.
I took some time this week to study Salvation Army doctrine. They don't participate in communion because, among other reasons, they believe the inward reality is more important than the symbolic expression. I think that's why I walked away from the table on Friday. They seemed to ignore the inward.
I would rather take communion with Ms.Vickies and V8 and mean it, instead of bread and wine just because.
I did take communion that night. On my way to the back another Tyndalian asked if I would take communion with him, and that seemed right. Eating and drinking with someone else, talking, praying, reflecting on the cross, remembering the body, and remembering the blood.
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Tooo true my friend, so many things we do have lost the deep meaning they originally had.
I've been thinking a lot about how the whole point of communion was to remember Christ whenever we come together to eat, not just at church with little cups of juice and crackers, anytime we eat, we should remember.
we've been having thursday night 'groupings' as LDP and our first one, was a communion. it was with crackers and pink lemonade. that was all we could get.
we talked as a group and learned about what each different person does when they do communion. some go around and see if they are alright with another person. i shared how we talk about what god is doing in our lives.
it was the first time we had done communion as a group.
we did it again tonight, and my heart wasn't in the right place.
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