Comments on: Perfectly timing your communion walk. http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/ Musings by Jon Acuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hermit http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-192933 hermit Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:12:39 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-192933 Crazy! The church I grew up in did the exact same thing! Were you in Eugene, Oregon? Crazy! The church I grew up in did the exact same thing! Were you in Eugene, Oregon?

]]> By: thoughtriver http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-128949 thoughtriver Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:18:42 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-128949 at my church after the third song we have the 'altar time' and they open up the altar for people who want to come up and they have service pastors available if you want someone to pray with you and we have communion in the four corners of the room. a pastor will pray and then everyone kinda goes where they want. its pretty cool. we don't take it together as a congregation, but many families take it together. i normally take communion, and your post made me realize i kinda just JET back there to the back left table as soon as the prayer ends. hahaha at my church after the third song we have the 'altar time' and they open up the altar for people who want to come up and they have service pastors available if you want someone to pray with you and we have communion in the four corners of the room. a pastor will pray and then everyone kinda goes where they want. its pretty cool. we don't take it together as a congregation, but many families take it together.

i normally take communion, and your post made me realize i kinda just JET back there to the back left table as soon as the prayer ends. hahaha

]]> By: Skyfort http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-17571 Skyfort Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:04:00 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-17571 This is only mildly related to the post (which was more than a little bit amusing, but at my church they just pass a plate of crackers and lil' cups, so the only thing to worry about is not dumping 50 lil' cups of grape juice into the lap of the person sitting next to me -- those trays are HEAVY)...oh, I was talking about something. Rite rite.<br/><br/>So I wanted to mention that, I am not sure where the "get squared up with God before communion" thing comes from. I had a communion dinner with my friends and we read all the passages about communion that we could find -- all the stuff about making sure you take it in a worthy manner, et cetera. Confession never comes up, but respect for the memory does. I think communion was not meant to be a "clean-up" time but it got tangled up with that idea somewhere along the way.<br/><br/>Weird o_O This is only mildly related to the post (which was more than a little bit amusing, but at my church they just pass a plate of crackers and lil’ cups, so the only thing to worry about is not dumping 50 lil’ cups of grape juice into the lap of the person sitting next to me — those trays are HEAVY)…oh, I was talking about something. Rite rite.

So I wanted to mention that, I am not sure where the “get squared up with God before communion” thing comes from. I had a communion dinner with my friends and we read all the passages about communion that we could find — all the stuff about making sure you take it in a worthy manner, et cetera. Confession never comes up, but respect for the memory does. I think communion was not meant to be a “clean-up” time but it got tangled up with that idea somewhere along the way.

Weird o_O

]]> By: angela http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-17468 angela Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:44:00 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-17468 thank you for the "fight club" add in! <br/><br/>"and now a question of etiquette . . ." thank you for the “fight club” add in!

“and now a question of etiquette . . .”

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-17004 Anonymous Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:18:00 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-17004 why don't you all do communion often? why don’t you all do communion often?

]]> By: Brydon http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-16959 Brydon Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:02:00 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-16959 We pass the spaceship... the hardest part of which is doing the hand off. Does that little old lady with the pencil-thin arms REALLY have a grasp on this 300-pound platter? C'mon, grannie, use both hands! Both hands!<br/><br/>When do you let go? Too early and it's communion kabluey. Too late and you look like you're hogging the blood of Jesus. It's kinda like high-stakes Jenga... It's okay if it crashes, just not on my turn. We pass the spaceship… the hardest part of which is doing the hand off. Does that little old lady with the pencil-thin arms REALLY have a grasp on this 300-pound platter? C’mon, grannie, use both hands! Both hands!

When do you let go? Too early and it’s communion kabluey. Too late and you look like you’re hogging the blood of Jesus. It’s kinda like high-stakes Jenga… It’s okay if it crashes, just not on my turn.

]]> By: Bari http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-16946 Bari Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:07:00 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-16946 A woman I know calls the spaceship thingy a holy hubcap. I like that. A woman I know calls the spaceship thingy a holy hubcap. I like that.

]]> By: Amanda B http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-16920 Amanda B Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:46:00 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-16920 Our church seems to switch it around from the going up to take your communion or having it passed to you. At least I don't usually have to worry about passing by people in the aisle since I usually sit in the back. Our church seems to switch it around from the going up to take your communion or having it passed to you. At least I don’t usually have to worry about passing by people in the aisle since I usually sit in the back.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-16889 Anonymous Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:27:00 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-16889 We liked to mix things up at our church. One Sunday each elders stood at the front along with his wife, consisting of about 8 couples. The wife held the platter containing the pre-pulled bread. The husband held an urn with the grape juice. The pastor explained the process. However, I could hardly contain myself as one woman got her bread from the wife and put it in her mouth as she was moving toward the husband, remembering too late that she needed to dip it in the juice. She pulled it out of her mouth, dipped it & moved on. Only a few were aware of what had happened. We never did it that way again. We liked to mix things up at our church. One Sunday each elders stood at the front along with his wife, consisting of about 8 couples. The wife held the platter containing the pre-pulled bread. The husband held an urn with the grape juice. The pastor explained the process. However, I could hardly contain myself as one woman got her bread from the wife and put it in her mouth as she was moving toward the husband, remembering too late that she needed to dip it in the juice. She pulled it out of her mouth, dipped it & moved on. Only a few were aware of what had happened. We never did it that way again.

]]> By: Artie http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/comment-page-2/#comment-16868 Artie Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:21:00 +0000 http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2008/08/382-perfectly-timing-your-communion-walk/#comment-16868 The silver spaceship comment had me rolling... Loved this one. We don't have to time our walk in our church though. But we do offer about all the ways you can do it without a common cup.<br/><br/>Early (casual..our code name for contemporary) everyone comes up by rows. They can 1. receive communion by intiction.. pull off a hunk of bread.. dip it in the juice and eat the elements at that time.<br/><br/>OR<br/><br/>at the same time option 2 is available..you can come forward eat a piece of bread and pick up a shot glass out of the silver space ship and drink.<br/><br/>OR<br/><br/>at the same time option 3 is available.. you can come forward, eat a bread chiclet and pick up a shot glass out of the silver space ship and drink.<br/><br/>OR<br/><br/>at 11:00 traditional service you can sit a la drive through and wait on the silver space ship to arrive in your lap along with it's smaller satelite sister ship carrying the bread/chiclets.<br/>Option 1 here is eat a bread chiclet and take a shot glass out of the silver space ship...hold the glass..<br/><br/>OR<br/><br/>break off a piece of bread and take out a shot glass from the silver space ship..hold the glass.<br/><br/>We then say aloud our affirmation of faith and we partake of the cup (the little shot glasses) at one time.<br/><br/>I heard this part (the unison cup) is somewhat new from some older parishioners just last night as little shot glass holders had to be made and affixed to the back of the pews so everyone would have a place to put them once they have received the cup.<br/><br/>I think this is a wise choice as I think I might get confused at times with all those little cups in that big space ship and accidentally pick one up that maybe someone else just didn't do a good job of finishing off properly.<br/><br/>I think we do a very nice job of offering a wide variety of options for communion in our church..we're not little but we're not huge. Actually pretty amazing now that I think about it... The silver spaceship comment had me rolling… Loved this one. We don’t have to time our walk in our church though. But we do offer about all the ways you can do it without a common cup.

Early (casual..our code name for contemporary) everyone comes up by rows. They can 1. receive communion by intiction.. pull off a hunk of bread.. dip it in the juice and eat the elements at that time.

OR

at the same time option 2 is available..you can come forward eat a piece of bread and pick up a shot glass out of the silver space ship and drink.

OR

at the same time option 3 is available.. you can come forward, eat a bread chiclet and pick up a shot glass out of the silver space ship and drink.

OR

at 11:00 traditional service you can sit a la drive through and wait on the silver space ship to arrive in your lap along with it’s smaller satelite sister ship carrying the bread/chiclets.
Option 1 here is eat a bread chiclet and take a shot glass out of the silver space ship…hold the glass..

OR

break off a piece of bread and take out a shot glass from the silver space ship..hold the glass.

We then say aloud our affirmation of faith and we partake of the cup (the little shot glasses) at one time.

I heard this part (the unison cup) is somewhat new from some older parishioners just last night as little shot glass holders had to be made and affixed to the back of the pews so everyone would have a place to put them once they have received the cup.

I think this is a wise choice as I think I might get confused at times with all those little cups in that big space ship and accidentally pick one up that maybe someone else just didn’t do a good job of finishing off properly.

I think we do a very nice job of offering a wide variety of options for communion in our church..we’re not little but we’re not huge. Actually pretty amazing now that I think about it…

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