Comments on: Communion this Sunday

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:26:32 +0000

I found your site interesting. Our church has communion every sunday to give thanks and praise to God for all things, for the blood his son Jesus shed for us and the price Jesus paid of our sins. Sometimes the juice and bread is passed round, other times everyone comes to the front and get theirs and occasionally we partake of it together at the front. It is a special time for all, a coming together.

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all said and done » Starred: May-September — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:56:19 +0000

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By: Tom Bryant

Tom Bryant — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:51:07 +0000

We celebrate every other month alternating between Sunday morning and Sunday evening. We are a close communion church. For a long time we only did Sunday nights because we are pretty insistent on unbelievers not participating but didn’t want just ask them to leave. But a good number of senior adults – with which Florida abounds – couldn’t drive at night. So we compromised.

We try to do it differently each time, but Sunday nights are never the same except for the elements. We have done a passover supper. We have done it completely silently. We now do it around dining room tables in the fellowship hall on Sunday night to emphasize the family remembrance.

We are doing it this week and we’re going to spend time talking about what we remember about Jesus from the bible that is special for us.

By: Ryan Wentzel

Ryan Wentzel — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:20:20 +0000

We celebrate the Lord’s Supper weekly. The first three weeks of the month we celebrate it in the evening service. The fourth Sunday of the month we celebrate it in the morning so that those who are unable to make it to the evening services have the opportunity to participate in the Lord’s Supper as well.

By: Rae Whitlock

Rae Whitlock — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:30:35 +0000

Hey there, Joe. I’m part of a PCA church plant that celebrates the Lord’s Supper weekly.

At the end of the sermon, our pastor leads us in reciting a confession of faith — sometimes a creed, sometimes an adapted catechism answer (like Heidelberg #1), sometimes a confession of a saint. He then explains Communion, gives the scriptural warning as a fence, and then pronounces the words of institution. The assistant pastor (or another church leader) holds the loaf of bread and the chalice of wine, and the congregation moves from their seats to the bread and cup as they’re ready. The pastor stands on the side, available to pray with anyone (communing or not).

We made this change pretty recently (Easter, I think) from passing the wafers and grape juice thimbles down the aisles. It’s been really beneficial for our people, I think.