Suddenly it dawned on me this morning during communion at church how odd it was that they only had appointed deacons serving communion to the congregation. I guess that this is a legacy of the Old Testament ‘High Priest as intercessor to God’ thing.
To be honest all they do is go to the end of the row so that it can be passed along – it’s not even as if they have some magical incantation to make as you receive the bread or the wine.
Seems a shame to keep this tradition – which seems unnecessarily exclusive.The Last Seduction full
it is also a tradition that only htose whoare christians, (in the churches eyes) should take comunion. How would th echurch eel if someone like Judas came and wanted comunion? Personally i wouldn’t have a problem, but you can imagine that many would askt he question, why hi, he betrayed God? and Yet Jesus shared communion with him.
Interesting point. I wonder if this relates to our ability to judge those inside the church – we can only judge their actions and we cannot judge those things that we don’t see or don’t know. Hence the weeds always being amongst the wheat.
Richard Passmore (who is away in Norway at the moment) would, I’m sure, point you to something that is rolling around Pete Rollins head along the lines of Judas being ‘called’ to betray Jesus – unfortunately this link doesn’t really cover that exact point:
http://blogs.ignite.cd/Pete/index.cfm?postid=454
I am very much on the side that Judas has been given a rough deal by lots of Christians. Some how gods prophecies had to come into action, and if certain things were to happen to Jesus then someone had to filll the roll. the thing for me, which I must say i haven’t got my head aund, but it is a huge challenge, is that even though he betrayed Jesus, Jesus still shared the upper with him, this I feel must be significant.
Sorry Mark, kind of taken away from your original point, but this is something i have been thinking about for a few years.
Hey, I’m not here to control where these threads go! 🙂
I must say that I really don’t know what to think about Judas.
Here’s another post and thread on the topic:
http://www.sundaypapers.org.uk/?p=144