Communion, Right or Privilege?
February 7, 2008
So tonight, we celebrated communion at our gathering.
A little background. We serve communion once a month at our mid-week gathering. We have been trying something new for the past few months, where we give people the option to, after corporate worship, either attend a specific study, or stay for the sermon/message.
Usually, we serve communion after the message - so those who are attending the study need to decide whether to join in communion, or go to the study. Tonight, there was a miscommunication where some people in a study were told that communion would be moved so that they could partake and go to their study. Upon finding out this wasn’t actually the case, one woman sought me out in our lobby, and proceeded to explain in a very agitated state that she was told she would be served communion.
She was practically demanding that she be given communion. Which makes me wonder whether she really gets what communion is about.
Have we become such a consumer driven society that we think we have the right to demand a sacrament?
How sad.
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