Comments on: Communion

By: Addiction Guy

Addiction Guy — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:19:30 +0000

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By: WorshipCity

WorshipCity — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:15:05 +0000

Get this: NON-alcoholic Wine!
How about that! Our pastor made a move for us to get as close to the original elements as we could (pita bread for unleavened bread and wine for..well, wine.) But for reasons mentioned above we didn’t go for alcoholic wine. I believe it does matter and am glad we do it, but in fact, I’d just as well use real wine
I have some great suggestions as well! HA.

By: klampert

klampert — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:12:17 +0000

We use wine every sunday AM

By: michael bells

michael bells — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:51:32 +0000

we use juice with the centre section wine

By: Vancouver Lofts

Vancouver Lofts — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:18:36 +0000

I’ve never been to a local church that uses wine. Juice all around for me.

By: Craig Douglas

Craig Douglas — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:19:05 +0000

At the Meeting House we use juice in our large group setting. However, we encourage our Home Church network to experience communion regularly in that setting. And in that case, I believe we leave it up to each Home Church to decide.
Personally, I prefer wine. But at the end of the day, it’s a moot issue, right? I mean, juice and wine are simply symbols; elements that draw us into a deeper expression. Heck, you could use water and it wouldn’t (shouldn’t) matter.

By: John Melick

John Melick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:16:59 +0000

Every church I’ve been to uses juice, except for the catholic services I’ve been to, which I wasn’t able to partake of. I think I might prefer wine. I also think that communion is supposed to be more than a monthly thing, I think Jesus intended it to be something we remember every time we eat. Not that it’s bad to have it during a service though!

By: Bob Gray

Bob Gray — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:49:10 +0000

Both churches I frequent use juice. My personal preference is wine. At a conference of former Jehovah’s Witnesses that I go to every year they offer both.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:27:23 +0000

I personally think wine might be more appropriate, but I’ve always gone to “juice-only” churches. My pastor would prefer wine if everyone in the congragation was in agreement, but they’re not. So juice is a more unifying choice, and still perfectly acceptable, IMO.

By: brent(inWorship)

brent(inWorship) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:25:27 +0000

Both…

We take communion every week in corporate worship. In that environment, we have always used juice.

Every Sunday AM, between services, my music team and I meet together for prayer, discussion and communion as well. In that environment, we have wine. There is a mutual agreement in that group, that we would use wine.