Several Communion Questions

[-Illini Fan-]

1.) How often does your church take communion?
2.) How is your communion done?

I go to the First Christian Church in Clinton, Illinois and we take communion every week. There are circular trays with little wafer pieces and small plastic cups of grape juice that are passed up and down the pews.

[davidshane]

We also take it every week, with small plastic cups of grape juice and pieces of bread. (You tear off your own piece). You take it when passed and then have some time for personal contemplation, after which you just take it on your own when you please. Usually worship will commence after the worship leader sees that everyone is finished.

[talitha]

Beforehand the grape juice is put into tiny plastic cups and the mazzoh is broken into bite-size pieces. Our pastor and usually one of the elders and sometimes another person or two stand in front of the church and hold these things as the congregation proceeds row by row to the front so each person can get his part. Once everyone is seated, the pastor gives thanks and says a few words or invites someone else to, and we all partake at once. We allow anyone who is saved (on their honor) to partake of communion. This all happens approximately monthly, sometimes more or less often.

Also, there is at every service a table set up with the elements on it so that at any point during the singing part of the service whoever desires or feels in need or led or whatever may partake on his/her own, before the Lord. There is a printout of the applicable scriptures on that table as well.

My husband and I have occasionally taken communion together or with small groups of friends; we generally use bread and red wine.

blessings
tal

[Jillymac]

We take it every week. We have trays of tiny glasses (filled with blackcurrent ribena) and then there are trays of cut up pieces of bread that get passed around the congregation.

Around 8 people are asked before the service to pass out the bread and "wine". This can be from the young people to the old. We usually have it in the morning service after we have entered into a quiet "thank you" time. Sometimes we have it in the evening service.

I know this might sound bad but sometimes i think it might be nice to not do it every week - then we'd learn to appreciate it more.

Jilly

[Overcash]

We do it once a month at our church usually at the end of the month. The deacons pass out little piecies of crackers on a tray and when everyone is served the pastor says a prayer and we eat it together. Then they pass out the grape juice and it is done the same way again.

[Scottish Joy]

Oh I MISS doing it every week!! Our house church group used to do it, but the place where we go now it's only once a month.
We used to pass around a small loaf of bread & all tear pieces off & small cups of grape juice, and everyone has time for contemplation & thanksgiving in their own heart- a lot like davidshane. It was a very relaxed, worshipful, unhurried atmosphere. I miss it SO much! The church group we attend now only does it once a month, and the atmosphere is completely different- very solemn & silent, and I don't think anybody enjoys it very much... It's much less often, and no wonder! :P Oh well... I'm hoping and praying for a change soon. When we had it more often, it was different every time- always fresh and full of life... I miss it soooo much. :cry:

[dalej42]

Every week on Sundays. I think it is every other week on Wednesday.

We go up towards the altar, communion is served by intiction. There is a brief prayer and then we return to our seat for a time of prayer.

At the end of communion, we join hands, rise, and sing a hymn.

I think we use grape juice except during Advent and Lent.

[ROGER459]

(1Corinthians 11:23-to-32) For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
(1Co 11:24) And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
(1Co 11:25) After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
(1Co 11:26) For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
(1Co 11:27) Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
(1Co 11:28) But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
(1Co 11:29) For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
(1Co 11:30) For this cause MANY are weak and sickly among you, and MANY sleep [are DEAD].
(1Co 11:31) For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
(1Co 11:32) But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Thanks, Roger459

[CrazyforYeshua]

We have comminion on the first Sunday of the month, Good Friday, Easter and Christmas Eve. If the Spirit moves my Pastor to do it at other times, he follows Gods leading.
The ushers pass it out, sometimes we go to the front, and we wait for one another. My Pastor reads the scripture quoted above, and then talks about taking it "unworthily". If we have unforgivness toward someone, we are encouraged to go to that person, then and there, to make it right, before we partake. Our unforgivness of a brother/sister in Christ hinders our walk. Then we take communion.

[Godslilgurlalways]

1.) How often does your church take communion?
2.) How is your communion done?

I go to the First Christian Church in Clinton, Illinois and we take communion every week. There are circular trays with little wafer pieces and small plastic cups of grape juice that are passed up and down the pews.


It's taken once a month on the first sunday of the month


We have trays that hold the small plastic cups, we also have the little wafers in a small fancy type bowl two of them.

WE(the ushers) go around and give it to everyone sometimes it's done where everyone walks up and picks them up (we are holld the tray and glass bowl in our hands. After that we usually(the ushers) stand on the side of the table most of the time. or basically at the front of the church not on the pulpit though.The pastor says everyone you know like don't take it if you have a fault with someone and all or your eating unto dailmation. He says all the stuff and we all do it. Most/ some of the time we all light candles to show unity and sing a song and blow them out. Out my old church they ask someone to blow their candle out and ask their neighbor to litt it showing how we should be (helping to lit our brothers and sister and all)

[Schroeder]

WE TAKE IT dayly as in in our walk we are continuelly in communion with Him, or we should be. as for the rite we dont take it. it was not meant to be a rite when he spoke of it. it was the passover meal which signified his death and ressurection. he was showing the apostles that this living prophecy so to speak was about to be fulfilled. He fulfilled it. I dont see why he would insatitute anotht rite to help us remember what he did SEEING how he lives in us always. how could you forget if Christ is your NEW BIRTH. i think it was meant to be lived not remembered.