Sorry for those of you who were following the posts about my mission trip, but I am taking a break (not sure if its temporary or more permanent) from those experiences and bring up some different topics that are on my mind, which are many now that I am back in an academic atmosphere.
My home church is a church where there is not too much value placed on the sacraments. Actually to be honest many of the people might not even know what sacraments are. We do Communion twice a year. Once at Easter as a congregation and once at Christmas as individual families and the pastor. It has been years since our baptismal has been used and when there is a mention of baptism in a sermon it nearly always used as an oppurtunity to warn people that baptism does NOT save you. I can not remember the last time I heard our pastor share the importance of being baptized.
I did not realize until I started attending MVNU and started attending a church in Mount Vernon that takes communion more than twice a year that I yearn for the Lord's Supper. I wish I could fully describe what this sacrament means to me and all the theological and historical things that hit me every time I partake of the body and blood. Though I am still reflecting on it I think if I ever get the oppurtunity to pastor a church we will have communion at the least once a month and more ideally every week. I know many disagree with me for various reasons. I would like to hear some of those disagreements and maybe even some affirmations of this idea. Also I am going to put a poll up about the frequency of performing communion. To end this post I will quote a comment I read on another blog today. "If you think there is something wrong with frequent communion then you need to take it more often"
My home church is a church where there is not too much value placed on the sacraments. Actually to be honest many of the people might not even know what sacraments are. We do Communion twice a year. Once at Easter as a congregation and once at Christmas as individual families and the pastor. It has been years since our baptismal has been used and when there is a mention of baptism in a sermon it nearly always used as an oppurtunity to warn people that baptism does NOT save you. I can not remember the last time I heard our pastor share the importance of being baptized.
I did not realize until I started attending MVNU and started attending a church in Mount Vernon that takes communion more than twice a year that I yearn for the Lord's Supper. I wish I could fully describe what this sacrament means to me and all the theological and historical things that hit me every time I partake of the body and blood. Though I am still reflecting on it I think if I ever get the oppurtunity to pastor a church we will have communion at the least once a month and more ideally every week. I know many disagree with me for various reasons. I would like to hear some of those disagreements and maybe even some affirmations of this idea. Also I am going to put a poll up about the frequency of performing communion. To end this post I will quote a comment I read on another blog today. "If you think there is something wrong with frequent communion then you need to take it more often"
