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Re: Theos-World Whether or not to take communion

Apr 12, 2004 08:42 AM
by Mauri


Reminds of some things in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code which, although it's fiction ...

kpauljohnson wrote:
Hey,
I went to church yesterday, Chesapeake Avenue Methodist in which I was baptized 40 years ago. Had been to Christmas and Easter services for years and taken communion. But now they have a new minister, and instead of making broad welcoming invitations to everyone to share in a sacrament, he specifies only those who accept Jesus as their personal savior to come.

So I sat there while the whole pew climbed over me, feeling myself a rock in a stream of consensus. But this new preacher had talked about Satan and Jews in ways that scared me, and it was as if from being Unitarian-flavored this Methodist Church had gone Southern Baptist.

The thought occurs to me that communion being open or closed to those who don't follow a party line is metaphoric of the positive and negative aspects of Christian attitudes toward others.





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