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Holy Communion

Shocking Innovations!

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

iMonk is piggy-backing on Jared Wilson’s 11 Innovations for Your Church by including his own “shocking agenda.” Here are a few of my own ideas: 23. Preach from the lectionary and read all the lessons every Sunday. 24. Integrate the … Continue reading →

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I'm Not Crossing the Tiber, but My Toes Are in the Thames

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

If you’ve been a Christian for the past ten or twenty years, you don’t need a cutting-edge sociological study to tell you that denominational identity doesn’t mean nearly as much today as it used to. People attend the churches where … Continue reading →

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An Order of Service

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

Here is the worship script for last night’s “vespers” service [along with my annotations]. As I said previously, the theme was feeding the hungry, with particular emphasis on our church’s Crisis Closet ministry. For reasons I’m not quite sure I … Continue reading →

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An Ancient-Future Agape Meal

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

One of the (too) many projects I’m working on for church these days is next week’s evening “vespers” service. This year, all the adult Sunday school classes are taking a turn at planning and conducting the service. A couple months … Continue reading →

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Baptists and the Lord's Supper, Again

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

iMonk is back on the job! So before we look at how previous Baptist confessions talked about the Lord’s Supper, let me say this: If all I had to go on was this confessional statement [The Baptist Faith and Message] … Continue reading →

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The Church of Christ and the Lord's Supper

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

Chris Heard has a thoughtful post about the disconnect between the strong doctrinal emphasis on Communion in the Church of Christ and the lackluster way it is sometimes practiced. I guess Baptists aren’t the only ones who don’t always live … Continue reading →

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Baptists and the Lord's Supper

Posted on June 6, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

Check out Michael Spencer on the historic Baptist view of the Lord’s Supper. (Hint: It’s symbolic, but there’s nothing “mere” about it!) I’ll just note a couple of gems. The first is from Dr. Peter Gentry: The Christian tradition in … Continue reading →

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Reflection on Holy Communion

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

Go read Michael Lee’s “The Words of Institution.” Michael is a minister in the free-church tradition who has struggled/is struggling with the fact that rituals have power, and this can be a good thing. When Pope John Paul II died, … Continue reading →

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Maundy Thursday Musings

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

In honor of the day on which Christians commemorate Jesus’ institution of the Lord’s Supper, I thought I’d point you to some previous posts on the subject. But first, here is the quote of the decade?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùfrom the perspective of this … Continue reading →

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Excommunicated

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

I have avoided blogging about my current experience of Holy Communion for at least a week. I wanted to weigh in when Internet Monk posted his thoughts on weekly Communion. I even started a draft of a post, but then … Continue reading →

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