Comments on: Sunday Stirrings ~ Communion http://www.jodiyork.com/2010/04/04/sunday-stirrings-communion/ Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:28:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Mellie http://www.jodiyork.com/2010/04/04/sunday-stirrings-communion/comment-page-1/#comment-876096 Mellie Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:00:32 +0000 http://www.jodiyork.com/?p=1523#comment-876096 Having spent the first 20 years of my life in the Baptist church and the last 32 in liturgical churchs with weekly communion, I find things to like and dislike with both ways of celebrating communion. Either way must be done well, by a Godly minister or priest for whom it goes deep into their soul and is not just rote or routine and that can make all the difference. That said, my favorite way is still with a big earthy loaf of homemade bread, torn into pieces and shared and real wine given in rememberance and honor and grace for Jesus. Having spent the first 20 years of my life in the Baptist church and the last 32 in liturgical churchs with weekly communion, I find things to like and dislike with both ways of celebrating communion. Either way must be done well, by a Godly minister or priest for whom it goes deep into their soul and is not just rote or routine and that can make all the difference. That said, my favorite way is still with a big earthy loaf of homemade bread, torn into pieces and shared and real wine given in rememberance and honor and grace for Jesus.

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.jodiyork.com/2010/04/04/sunday-stirrings-communion/comment-page-1/#comment-876023 Jennifer Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:49:50 +0000 http://www.jodiyork.com/?p=1523#comment-876023 I've felt some of the same things as you have. Especially in the church's Mike and I have served in where communion was tacked onto the end of the service. In the church we serve at now, communion IS the service, and it makes such a difference in how it "feels" if that makes any sense. Our Senior Pastor does a good job each time with emphasizing the significance of what Christ did on the cross to purchase our redemption and how in participating in communion, we are worshiping. I’ve felt some of the same things as you have. Especially in the church’s Mike and I have served in where communion was tacked onto the end of the service.

In the church we serve at now, communion IS the service, and it makes such a difference in how it “feels” if that makes any sense. Our Senior Pastor does a good job each time with emphasizing the significance of what Christ did on the cross to purchase our redemption and how in participating in communion, we are worshiping.

]]> By: Nanny http://www.jodiyork.com/2010/04/04/sunday-stirrings-communion/comment-page-1/#comment-876020 Nanny Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:37:30 +0000 http://www.jodiyork.com/?p=1523#comment-876020 I'm with you as far as being told by my church when I was "ready" for my first communion -- in 2nd grade! -- and my confirmation -- in the 8th grade. I know now that I wasn't really ready, but on the other hand I can see that planting that seed in the young me was probably a good thing. I receive communion every Sunday now and it is a constant reminder to me of God's presence. I hear the words "Do this in memory of me" and, true, some Sundays that hits home more than on other Sundays. But I still appreciate the constancy of it. I’m with you as far as being told by my church when I was “ready” for my first communion — in 2nd grade! — and my confirmation — in the 8th grade. I know now that I wasn’t really ready, but on the other hand I can see that planting that seed in the young me was probably a good thing. I receive communion every Sunday now and it is a constant reminder to me of God’s presence. I hear the words “Do this in memory of me” and, true, some Sundays that hits home more than on other Sundays. But I still appreciate the constancy of it.

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