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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 Hi everyoneWell, this is my first time on this site - so I might muck it up! But the topic of the emblems at the Lord's Supper --- my husband Wilfred, has got an Anglican/Brethren Assemblies background and had always taken the emblems from a common cup and had the bread broken off from the loaf. I, on the other hand had a Methodist/Baptist background and always had the small peices of bread cut up and had individual cups.When we first married I attended the Brethren Assemblies with my husband. There I had to endure drinking from the communal cup, and because I always sat at the back with an evergrowing family, by the time the cup came to me there was always a film of slag on the wine. Consquently I found it rather hard to have my mind in the proper place! At our church (a small evangelical church in the north-west suburbs) we have the individual cup as well as the small peices of bread - which I don't like. I much prefer having a loaf which has been broken in two for us to pull apart. But there are some people who don't like the thought of 'other' peoples hands touching the bread!! Who knows where their hands have been!! Anyway it all boils down to how our hearts are when we partake and not the actual emblems that are being used. We use to have orange juice and crackers with our kids when they were little and we were on holidays. A dear friend of ours was a reformed alcholic and partook of the Lord's Supper at a church that used actual wine and he nearly 'fell off the wagon' through the experience! We use grapejuice (which sometimes tastes rather 'off') - never mind - it gives us a time to examine our hearts. Michele # posted by shellymac @ 5:42 pm 0 comments
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