A Twisted Crown of Thorns ®

Clint Archer looks at the communion table and questions surrounding it in his latest article:

After my post on children taking communion I received some great questions. I wanted to address them more fully than in a crammed comment cage.

Have you ever thought of these provocative variables in the form and substance of the Lord’s Supper:

• Should we not emulate the NT church’s practice of sharing an entire, sit-down meal?
• Must the bread be unleavened?
• Must the wine be alcoholic?
• Must the wine be red or can we use Champagne instead?
• Where does one draw the line? For example, can pizza and Coke count as communion? I.e. can the bread be sweetened, or have a topping? What about milk and cookies?

Makes the blood boil a bit, doesn’t it? You may have got stuck on the milk & cookies on, and you would probably say: “Obviously not, don’t be dumb.” And you’d be right to say that…but why?

Here are some principles by which we can make these decisions….

Read on.

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