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Communion coming in a little plastic container once a month at the end of church is the dumbest thing Protestants ever came up with

  • Doing it once a month makes it feel like it's not a core part of worship. Your baseline church experience is no communion.

  • Cramming it in right at the end, when the pastor just got through another long-butt sermon, and you're hungry and just kind of ready to go, never puts me in the right space to appreciate it

  • Plastic waste, shitty wafer, little preschool sip of grape juice after an overly long invocation.

  • It feels like a mildly annoying surprise, like "oh, I guess church is going to be ten more minutes today, well that's okay I guess, I do love the Lord and all..." :marseyseethe:


I once belonged to a church that did it every week, with real bread and wine. It felt like a highlight instead of a dragged out afterthought. I always looked forward to it.

If you insist on doing it once a month with lil packaged slop rations, at least do it near the beginning, when it could feel like welcoming/celebrating. Like we're gathering for a holy meal. Don't dump it at the end like "and here's another thing!"


I am aware that I'm a brain rotted r-slur with a blown-out attention span, but I know for a fact that I'm not the only person who ever zones out in church. Don't make your parishioners bored during what is meant to be the central sacrament of Christian worship.

!christians

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I'm at a particularly low church even for non-denom ones and I like we do it every week but I do agree the COVID cups are kind of meh.

I went to a bigger non-demon church over the summer while traveling and it was cool that they used a communal cup with real wine and real bread.

perhaps I should bring it up to my pastor. :marseyhmm:

I'm sure @Corinthian will go :marseysmughips: after hearing this but I recall a person tossing a COVID cup when another person was out of reach once and I :marseypearlclutch: enough that I still remember it.

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lol I actually just posted on @Luna_C_Pibbles's wall following up on this since it was the other day now.

Viewing the Sacrament so casually does make me :marseysmughips: a bit, yeah. I try not to be obnoxious or get into daily debates with our handful of actual Protestants on here but even traditional Reformed should know better than that.

John 6:22-71 1 Corinthians 11:27-30

Find another passage where disciples leave Jesus over a misunderstanding if you think the Sacrament is merely a metaphor. :marseyandjesus:

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I was thinking you'd :marseysmughips: because it would be a good example of how having a low view of the sacrament also leads you to commit disrespectful actions.

My Church is from the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, you wouldn't like it :marseyemojismilemouthcoldsweat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_churches_and_churches_of_Christ

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John 6:22-71

On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him." They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven{Greek and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the heavens", "the sky", and "the air".} to eat.'" Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread." Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe. All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'" Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven-- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?" But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him. He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father." At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

1 Corinthians 11:27-30

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a manner unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body. For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

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For reference the whole church is enthusiastic the message should center the cruxifixction and communion is central to that.

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Don't dump it at the end like "and here's another thing!"

Have you ever tried attending a liturgically based Church service? You could dip your toes in the water with Lutherans/Anglicans/Methodists if you find Papists :marseypope: or Orthodox a step too far initially. The Liturgy of the Eucharist is supposed to be both the focus and also go at the end. :marseyindignant:

I went with a friend to a low church service once and it's definitely a totally different vibe. The norm for 2000 years for most Christians has always been to pray in unison, read some passages of Scripture, have a lil homily and then participate in the Sacrament. :marseyandjesus:

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I don't necessarily mind it being at the end, I'd just want it to be done consistently and in a way that makes it feel like the central part of worship.

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Need ma Church wine

:#marseywinemomtalking:

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  • At my church we did it today, like last week, like the week before. So you're fighting a strawman LOL

  • Saying that your pastor is bad, is not the flex you think it is

  • Did you consider providing a wholesome matzoh and some good wine? At your own personal expense?

  • If you can't figure out a regular schedule, once again, that's not really a flex on anyone

So this whole thing is you, saying your church and you are both sub-standard (and it's even YOUR standard)

do better, brother

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Many Protestant churches do not do it weekly. I went to a Presbyterian Church in America church that did it that way, which is the one I mentioned liking.

Other than that I've been to PCUSA and independent/non-denominational churches. Those all did communion once a month (typically on the first Sunday) and it always felt sort of grafted on to me.

I like my pastor and I like my church. I wrote this post because I realized I was having a randomly negative response to communion today. I can do my best to watch out for that attitude and get in the right mental space, but I also think Protestant churches should more consistently build worship around communion.

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Removed. Ben garrison's "humor" seldom reaches escape velocity. This agendapost didn't even get its wick dry.

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