Just thought I’d post on how we celebrate communion.

First of all, we utilize communion as a way of people “crossing the line of faith.” I can’t think of a more appropriate way to symbolize a step of faith than celebrating communion for the first time. In our culture, we sign on the dotted line to formalize a contract. With the new covenant, we eat the bread and drink the cup.

We tend to do communion during messages and series where it really fits the Big Idea. So we did communion during our DTR: Define the Relationship Series. I thought communion was a great fit with defining our relationship with God.

We celebrated communion yesterday and I talked about the aphorism: out with the old and in with the new. That is what communion is all about. It was a tight fit with this Neos series.

We don’t celebrate communion the same way every time. We mix it up so it doesn’t become too ritualistic. But my favorite form of communion is giving people a communion bag with a tin and a vial. I like for people to hold them in their hand during the service as a way of preparing their hearts for the experience.

We also encourage people to hang on to the tin and vial as a spiritual memento if they celebrated communion for the first time.

One word of warning:

The tins are noisy And you’ve gotta love the sound of suction as a few hundred people drink the vial