A long long time ago (yesterday ) in a land far far away (Kansas City) two seasoned experts on the practises of Communion entered into a strange denomination of which communion is only a shadow of the CRC.....
Ok, so yesterday was sunday and that time of the month....(no not that) It was communion at church! SO....
SCENES FROM LAST SUNDAY:
Narrator: The Pastor's wife introduced herself to Jessica and Steven after church and learned about their situation. She was interested about the fact that they had been married a mere 3 weeks at that point and was curious to know more about us. She then asked....
Pastor's Wife (Giovanni): So did you go to any other church's since you have been here?
Steven: I went before Jess came to a Luthuren Church.
Pastor's Wife (Giovanni): Oh, how did you like it?
Steven: Well it was ok, it was a little weird, the Pastor sang the litergy and the whole congregation all drank out of the same communion cup.
Pastor's Wife (Giovanni): Oh, Ok, (laughing) so you didn't like that.....
Steven: I didn't do communion because it was a little too weird for me at the time...
Narrator: Steven, Jessica and the Pastor's wife continued to talk and it was a friendly conversation indeed.
THIS WEEK AT THE SUNDAY SERVICE:
Narrator: Steven and Jessica enter the church and converse with members of the congregation. Topics such as bible Study, babies, Kansas City University winning their previous game- (college basketball) were all discussed. After the congregation sits down and the service begins....Steven and I notice something at the front......something on a table.....something I hadn't done since I was in Edmonton....something looked a little off.....Could it be.....no wait.....it couldn't! BUT IT WAS!
A Half Loaf of Bread and a SINGLE CUP OF GRAPE JUICE adorned the table for COMMUNION!
Steven looked at me....and I looked at him....it was pretty obvious. This communion was going to be a weird one.
Steven just couldn't believe that he had said all those opinions about communion at last weeks service without experiencing communion here first.
So the worship starts and then ends (it was lovely) and the sermon begins and finishes off (very powerful....meaningful...) and then it started. Communion. And I have done Communion many times....but never like this. I was very concerned I was going to get sick! What if I got a cold sore! So then the Pastor organizes people to stand around the table at about 8 at one time.....Steven and I happened to be in one of the front rows....so we went first with a few other people. So they passed the loaf around and you were supposed to rip off a piece. So we did that. We were very much concentrating on the bread and passing it around when to my surprise I saw the big silver cup of juice coming my way! I quickly downed the bread and Steven did as well....we both looked at eachother and I took the cup in my hands, raised it to my lips and took a sip....and Steven gave me this nervous awkward look and took a sip as well.....wWell, when we passed it to the next person they
dipped
their
bread
in
the
juice
HOW EMBARRASSING! Yeah, so we were the only ones to sip the juice (we had no bread left to dip anyway) and everyone else very sanitarily dipped the bread in and then ate it........we walked back to our seats and Steven could not stop laughing. He was shaking our bench! He just could not stop thinking about the fact that we sipped out of that cup and that everyone else had dipped the bread! We poisoned everyone with our germs! We also were laughing that we were the crazy Canadians who thought that this possibly wasn't a communion but a lunch and left the communion table full of bread and juice mustaches around our mouths like children....
Nobody mentioned it to us afterward....but we were still laughing about it after the service....I guess I'm going to watch and listen more closely the next time I'm in a strange church and communion begins in a strange way....
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Ok, I laughed too Jess and had I been in church I would have shaken the bench with my laughter as well! Interesting that you were so caught up on how you assumed it would go that you didn't even see anyone else dip the bread into the wine OR were you the very first ones?
Ha ha ha - so funny - especially thinking about the whole juice mustache thing. LOL!
We were the first group of people....and we were like the second couple to get passed the juice but we were seriously so distracted with the bread....we didn't see any dipping!
Hahahahaha That is soooo funny, especially after Steve said that to the pastors wife! I've never seen communion done that way. That was a very fun adventure to read.
Leigh-Anne
that was very well describing, capturing the suspense and excitment very well. except you forgot the mention it was the pastors wife that did the communion thing, she saw us drink from the cup! now we will never speak of this again.
That was hilarious Jess. Dirk and I both had a good laugh and we agree that since you have a lot of free time you should think about writing a book. You definitely have a talent for telling stories! Looking forward to the next one.
Bea
Hilarious Jess! Wish I could have been a fly on the wall watching all of this happen!
I'm laughing so hard I have tears streaming down. That is SO So funny!!! Something you will remember forever along with the pastor's wife.
Yeah, its 1am, I can't sleep so I read Jessicas blog because her mom said I should and I am rocking this office chair with laughter all by my self..that is hillarious Jess and Steve!! Oh my, I can just picture that. jessics, if you are not allowed to work and make money, send your story to the reagers digest!! They will pay you $100 for that story!! Oh how i can still laugh..sorry you hardly know me but I had to respond..
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