Converts: What was Protestant Communion Really Like?

[Texan_in_DC]

As a former southern baptist, we probably practiced the Lords Supper about 4 times a year at the most. Because we had a tradtion that we could not drink wine, we had grape juice instead, because this was symbolic I enjoyed the grape juice and crackers in church, there was not much thought process on my part because I was always taught this should not be a central point of our worship.

As a Catholic today this is the heart and soul of my faith. Its hard for me to go back to protestant weddings and such and although there might be a few great speakers around the protestant communities this is not a worship time towards God but really a really nice christian style country club community.

 

[Steelhart]

As a Catholic today this is the heart and soul of my faith. Its hard for me to go back to protestant weddings and such and although there might be a few great speakers around the protestant communities this is not a worship time towards God but really a really nice christian style country club community.

I can relate with you on that as my dad is still a Baptist and it is sad but funny the way it’s structured like that.

 

[Biblioassistant]

This is so interesting! Once for a statistics class in college I had to take a survey, so I surveyed a bunch of Southern Baptist students to see how often their church celebrated communion. I got so many different answers. Some did it every Sunday (they were rare), some did it once a year, but most did it once a month.

 

[JohnnyReb]

I’m not a full convert at this point but as a Protestant, I found the practice of the memorial meal without Real Presence to be lacking. It did nothing to account of all of the scriptures regarding the Eucharist (ie John 6).

Plus, Protestants always said that Catholics believe in Real Presence, but we believe in communion as a memoral meal, and the Catholics do not. I was shocked when I found this was not true, that Catholics also believe in the communion as a memorial meal.