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We do communion once a month at our Encounter Service (first Wednesday). We also have it sitting on the altar in the Edge every Sunday morning for our prayer times from 8-8:30 and from 10-10:30, for anyone who wants to take it.

We do not do footwashing!

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When I first started to attend our UPC church, they did both in the watchnight service on New Years Eve. The last 8 or so years we quit doing it then. Now the last two years we haven't even had watchnight service. Our church in Houston did both on New Years eve. I have never seen footwashing without communion.

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Our church does both communion and footwashing once a year just before Easter (around when Passover would be).

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There seems to be evidence that the early church practiced this ordinance regularly, Steve ... how do your reconcile this w/ your position?

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The church i attend now, has never had a communion or footwashing service in its entire history.
For me to take communion, I usually will go to church with my grandmother at a methodist church. surprizingly they have never taken me off the rolls of membership. which i don't mind it at all.

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Our church does communion once a year the first Sunday Night after Jan 1. In the two years we have attended this church, there has not been a footwashing service. I think the logistics would be interest considering the size of the church. At the church I attended prior to this one-We had communion once a year usually at the turn of the year. We did footwashing at that time too.

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My beliefs on communion differs from others probably in my home church.

I believe in taking it with real wine and baked unleavened bread, and doing so as Christ did it, on Passover night. I feel a great peace knowing that I do it like this. I do not make this salvational, nor would I. But, I do feel this is right.

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How about some of you pastors chiming in with what you do at your church regarding the sacraments and why.

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We have communion every Sunday.

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One thing for sure when the apostles ate the last supper it wasn't a cracker and a jigger of juice.They ate the feast of the passover,it was a supper.Every time we eat bread and drink fruit of the vine at home we do it in his rememberance.



1 Cor.11:[20] When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
[21] For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
[22] What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
[23] For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
[24] And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
[25] After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
[26] For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
[27] Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
[28] But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
[29] For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
[30] For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
[31] For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
[32] But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
[33] Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
[34] And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come