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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 Truly Terrible!Gary, I agree with you that it's terrible. Really, really terrible (grape juice from a plastic throw-away cupette). I like the idea of wine from the silver cup. A common cup. And a big thick loaf of chunky bread, to tear a good piece from and savour.But I don't think anything about the method of communion needs to be made into rules and reg's. It's the symbolism, and reverence and what it all means to us that seems most important to me. Incidentally, we were stopped one morning on way home from church and breath-tested by the local constabulary. The officer, a pleasant young chick, smiled at my answer to her question "have you had a drink today?" And Grant cracked a joke at BSF last night, in his intro lecture to Acts. It was after telling us there's lots of good memory-verses throughout Acts for us to take and use appropriately. It goes (this is for you Gary!): An elderly lady came home from church and surprised a burglar rifling through her apartment. In surprise, she shouted spontaneously "Acts 2:38". The burglar immediately froze, raised his hands in the air and waited patiently while the old lady phoned the police who arrived and handcuffed the burglar. Then they asked him why he had frozen when the lady shouted a scripture-verse at him. The response "I thought she said she had an axe and 2 38's!" Groan! Sorry, Gary - guess you're really missing BSF!! Anyway, we learned that Acts is full of action (including a disproportionate time spent describing Paul's shipwreck), characters, teaching and of course, the Spirit. And that growth of the church rested on the risen, resurrected Christ - not on building programs or personalities! In terms of the characters, Peter, Paul, et al., God works through normal ordinary individuals who are completely surrendered to the Holy Spirit. And that Jesus gives the Holy Spirit to believers in order to empower them. # posted by geoff @ 4:47 pm 0 comments
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