Challenging Evangelical Assumptions, Part 2

Assumption Two: Communion is unimportant.

This is, of course, one that is not written. It is more unconscious.

This comes from the comment that I often heard, "When you take communion all the time (or frequently), it loses its meaning." How does the sacrifice that Jesus made lose its meaning. It is something we should meditate on daily? Communion is a powerful reminder of that. Churches were often scorned when they took communion weekly.

In our little church, we took communion once a quarter (four times yearly), as prescribed by the powers that be in our denomination.

Fortunately, some evangelical churches have foregone this practice and started taking communion once a month. I am glad to see the increase in participation in the Lord's Supper.

One further problem, it is still often left as an add on at the end of the worship service. We sing, we pray, we hear a sermon, and (oh, yeah) we have to take a tiny cracker and tiny cup of grape juice.

Communion needs to be more integrated into the worship experience.