"For me, if I am going to consider tradition when deciding my conviction about the outward ceremony of the Lord's Supper, I feel as though I am "barking up an unhelpful tree." First of all, there is the Quaker fork, which…"
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""Recognition" is like a "call." Sort of like saying, "Okay, we know you're here, and welcome!""
Tom Smith commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"I was raised with the concept that the silence before every meal was a recognition of the presence of Christ as we broke bread together. It was not to "call the presence" but a recognition that at the "right hand of God" meant…"
"All this concern for "what we're saying" looks like it could turn into a matter of "cleaning the outside of the cup."
I'm considering this via Stephen Gaskin's notion of church services as a sort of…"
Rodney Guy Pharris commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"Biblically, Fox points out Paul's revelation from Christ, in I Corinthians 11, that whoever takes the bread and the wine proclaims Christ's death until he comes. Then Fox turnes to I John 5, in a "what canst thou say"…"
Allistair Lomax commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"This is an excellent exposition of the Early Quaker understanding of the Lord's Supper. I'd like to add a few comments, of my own, if I may. One of the other essential issues for Fox and the Early Quakers is the one of 'shadow'…"
Rodney Guy Pharris commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"These are wonderful connections."
Helen Bayes commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"I have just been to Catholic Mass in the Rockhampton Cathedral, with some anti-war activists disrupting the USA/Australian 'war games' currently in happening here. I was moved by the inward stillness and seriousness of many…"
Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"Thee speaks my mind, Forrest."
"And letting God care for us, rather than thinking we need to do all the flailing on our own."
Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"There's another aspect of the Last Supper that many ignore - Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. It was not just communion with God, but caring for one another."
Rodney Guy Pharris commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"I see the meal more in the vein of a typical Seder, with all the elements that go along with that. Jesus, of course, transformed it; instead of the usual focus on the Exodus elements, Jesus instructed the disciples to take on a new focus: the…"
Helen Bayes commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"I have realised there is more for me to add. The Last Supper is the story of Jesus serving his disciples. He chose and booked the Upper Room (like he did the donkey), and probably arranged the supper…"
Rodney Guy Pharris commented on Rodney Guy Pharris's blog post 'Fox on Bread & Wine'"Much of what you testify to, I can as well. Just as I look to the food to satisfy my appetite, to give me energy and to fill my empty stomach, I look to Christ to satisfy my deepest desires, to energize me and to fill my emptiness. What…"
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Fox on Bread & Wine
During my two decades as a Friend within the Evangelical sphere on influence, I have noticed two things when it comes to elemental (bread & wine, or juice) communion. First, every book or article written by a Friend on the subject of the sacraments begins by lamenting the lack of understanding, by Quakers, of their own view of the ordinances. Second, and I think this is mostly found within Evangelical Friends, is that elemental communion and non-elemental communion are, theologically…
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- At 10:51am on 8th mo. 29, 2011, Allistair Lomax said…
Hi Rodney,
Glad to see you on QuakerQuaker
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