Fellowship How do Spirit-filled Charismatic believers prefer to take communion?

SpiritPsalmist said:

My apologies. I usually do not read the Good News Translation but had looked up a verse previously and forgot to put it back to NKJV. The translations are pretty much the same though:

29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.

What is the "this reason"? Eating and drinking in an unworthy manner. I think you will find the reason written before the verse quoted... (probably afterward, too) As I said, they were "partying", not being mindful of the rest of the body of Christ (the church) who didn't have the means to buy the fine food the Fat Cats brought with them (they did not eat "wafers" the host or hostess supplied, as we do at church, it was a full meal.)

We really do need to read much more than we do when we select a verse to quote.... Sometimes, maybe even the whole Chapter.
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PS You don't need to be rude to me. Also, we should stop debating, this is a fellowship thread.

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SeventyOne said:

I had someone tell me my response was in bad taste and they reported me, which I don't understand at all, but if some others of you were offended, I apologize, but I do prefer someone ask for clarification if they don't like something I said, rather than just running away and telling 'mommy' on me.

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Willie T said:

I thought you guys might enjoy this video my church did on "Communion Misconceptions"

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Messy2 said:

I'm in a homegroup kinda church now and we have not real whine and matzes, we have it together from small cups, also with the kids, it's great. I don't care much, but I like this. I once went to a church, kids wanted to take it, no they can't have it. Okay. Stupid. They even gave their hearts to the Lord.

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SeventyOne said:

I read it and my reaction was that I had no preferred method, one is as good as the other. In my mind, I don't care if it's wine, juice, goblet, Dixie cup, wafer, Oreo, alone, or with a city full of people. As long as I can eat and drink it it's all good, hence the 'orally' remark.

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Didaskalos said:

My wife and I take it at home as often as we shall.

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Willie T said:

Please open the "QUOTE"
I wasn't trying to be rude, just stating that I felt you were shorting yourself by only using one translation, as it appeared you were doing... since "No" they don't all say what the GNT says. That particular version attempts to "tell" you what a verse means, rather than just repeating the verse in, perhaps, more easily understood language. Frankly, the GNT borders on trying to establish "doctrine" in many areas.

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I understand and agree somewhat with your opinion of GNT but like I said, it was not on purpose. I did not say "they all" say the same thing, I said in that particular verse they say the same thing. I usually use the NKJV but there was another verse for a different subject that I had looked at several versions with the last one being the GNT and I forgot to reset it to the NKJV when I typed in the verse for this thread. Generally I look at several translations, but generally use either KJV or NKJV, and rarely the GNT.

I still don't get the point you were trying to make. Either way there were sick and dying people because of taking communion carelessly. I don't see that the sick and dying were poor people who were starving to death because they were not getting any food when they went to church. I'm willing to listen though if you take it verse by verse to prove your point. Perhaps maybe start another thread rather then here in a fellowship thread.

Willie T said:

SP,
No point. You already know what I wrote, and if you see it differently, that's fine. Repeating myself would just be inciting you to devise defenses, and that isn't necessary.

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talitha said:

I have been in a wide variety of settings and received communion - and given it - in a variety of ways.

My favorite is to have actual bread and actual wine, to drink from a common cup, and to be sitting around informally, taking communion as a community. I have found it meaningful for each person to serve the next person.

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I remember one time at a Vineyard Christian Fellowship I attended in California, we took communion paired up in twos with people we did not know. From what I can remember there were two lines and as each first in line got up to the front they would go to a spot to meet the person from the other line and they would serve each other. I thought it was pretty cool.

talitha said:

So, Dids, how do you prefer to take communion?

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SeventyOne said:

I had someone tell me my response was in bad taste and they reported me, which I don't understand at all, but if some others of you were offended, I apologize, but I do prefer someone ask for clarification if they don't like something I said, rather than just running away and telling 'mommy' on me.

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