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My question is, would it be proper to send the implements to my sister who is 73 and a good friend who is 62 and take communion over the phone? I am 80 and feel so handicapped in my usefulness to and for God. Thank you for your help, encouragement and prayers. I started taking Holy communion about three weeks ago.
Besides being born again in Christ, a healthy body and mind are the greatest blessings anyone can have. And the Holy Communion is God’s ordained channel of healing and wholeness. The Eucharist is an act of worship for the Church proper — the physical assembly of the saints — and any attempt to administer it outside that context may be viewed as invalid. The proper matter is present, certainly.
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There were plenty of references to musical instruments being played in the Old Testament. There is no recorded instance of communion being partaken of alone. So the evidence shows that there is no need for a Pastor, Minister, or Priest to do something special to the elements to make them a sacrament. This would indicate that people brought from home the elements that were going to be used for the celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
Churches have transitioned to online services and Zoom meetings. The sermon livestream is no problem—we’re comfortable with the Word transferring digitally. A recent study from the Pew Research Center easily pulled together 50,000 online sermons from Pentecostal to Catholic. Eighty-three percent of American protestant pastors agree that viewing a livestream is an acceptable option for the sick.
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There have been positive changes not only in myself but in my life. I take communion at home for many years now. Now i know i can take daily and anytime. I even gave my baby a little portion at this time of the coronavirus two days ago. I spoke to him and held him tight in my arms as he ate. Jamie, thank you so much for confirming our use of communion.
He says they are being self-centered and not interested in remembering the sacrifice of the Lord. Paul goes on to chastise them for having ungodly motives when they are partaking in communion. There is a big difference between how we celebrate communion and how the early church celebrated it. The mission of the church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
Next: When you take communion, pray and speak out loud something like this:
A daily digital culture has shaped our interactions to the point that human presence is not synonymous to physicality. The proper intention is to carry out our Lord’s command as the Church has always done and understood it. The proper form is the use of Christ’s words of institution as we assemble together physically to worship Him. As many churches comply with governmental mandates to cease in-person services, one of the important questions to emerge has been whether we can take Communion alone in our homes. So in the end, taking communion at home should not be something you are doing because you cannot get along with people or the leadership of your local church. In The United Methodist Church, only pastors are authorized to consecrate the elements and preside at the celebration of communion.
” Paul distinguished between private meals, even fellowship meals and common meals and the Supper. It seems to me that by only allowing ordained ministers to administer the Sacraments we are excluding small Christian communities around the world from ever being able to legitimately partake. Certainly we would want Christians in a small Nepali village with no ordained minister to be able to receive the Eucharist and baptism. Dr. Clark, I greatly appreciate your work and this article has been helpful as I think through how our church should worship during this time. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Maria, the book is called Gods creative power for healing. Thanks for giving us to step by step prayer and preparing before taking Communion. I have my Communion cups at home. And in the name of Jesus, I loose God’s holy protection over me, my family and loved ones, and everything that pertains to us. I decree that my family and I and everything that pertains to us are hidden in the secret place of the Most High, for we dwell under the shadow of God’s wings. I ask You, Holy Spirit, to cover me and my family and everything that pertains to us.
“This is my body”—Christ’s words make our faith explicitly physical. But COVID-19 has transformed our physical bodies and gatherings from blessed unity to social-distanced partitioning. Hugs and hands convey fear instead of love. The bread and the cup elicit worry of viral transmission.
May God continue ministering to me through you his servant for I long to serve him with all my heart, mind and soul. Thank you so much for your article I have learnt a lot, I will be taking the Lords Supper at home often now. Your lesson was confirmation that I needed to incorporate this in my life. This message was extremely encouraging to me. You are a true gift to the body of Christ. Thank you for sharing this anointed teaching about communion.
He does not discriminate, for His love came for all mankind, though we can accept or sadly even reject that saving grace that is the salvation for our sins. For some, the Eucharist is literally the Body and Blood of Christ, for others Communion is only symbolic while some see it as a powerful mystery between the two viewpoints. Regardless, all mankind needs the saving grace of Jesus Christ and the elements of Communion are at minimum a powerful remembrance of that.
It reminds us of our utter dependence on Jesus. Perhaps now more than any other time in history, we need this reminder in our homes. Maria, you might want to check out Andrew Womack Ministries online.
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