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..."
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.
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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.
I'm sure @Corinthian will go after hearing this but I recall a person tossing a COVID cup when another person was out of reach once and I 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 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.
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I was thinking you'd 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_churches_and_churches_of_Christ
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John 6:22-71
1 Corinthians 11:27-30
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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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