How Often Should A Church Offer Sacraments?

[Sherri]

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!

[Mosby48]

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.

[joyful]

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

[SDG]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

randon - about 1 -2 times a year.

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

[nwlife]

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.

[Blubayou]

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.

[Brother Price]

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.

[CC1]

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

[ReformedDave]

We have communion every Sunday.

[Joelel]

Originally Posted by CC1

How often does your church offer communion?

Is it on a regular schedule or at random?

How often does your church have a footwashing service?

Does your personal belief regarding these two sacraments differ from your current church's practices?

Do some of your churches NOT have either communion or footwashing?

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