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I can reply as an Evangelical Christian.
The Apostle Paul writes to the Corintheans that we shouldn’t engage in the Lord’s supper lightly or in attitude that risks sacrilege. He warns us to examine ourselves, and to forgive people who’ve sinned against us, and to not partake if we’re in unrepented sin or in an attitude of unforgiveness towards someone. There’s no suggestion that the communion forgives or remits sins - on the contrary, that it magnifies the sinful state for partaking when you’re not in a repentant, forgiving, and/or self-examining attitude.
The Charismatic Christian community mostly view the communion (their word for Eucharist) as a mostly symbolic act, that symbolizes unity, agreement with each other and God, a focal point for self-reflection, an act of connection and devotion to Jesus, and an act that connects them spiritually if not temporally nor physically to the actual Last Supper. Some will abstain on occasions where they feel God wouldn’t approve of them taking it, or they feel they’d bring disrepute upon Jesus or judgement upon themselves. In the main, they don’t subscribe to the idea that the bread and wine (or juice) actually physically becomes or acquires the properties of The Saviour.
The Apostle Paul writes to the Corintheans that we shouldn’t engage in the Lord’s supper lightly or in attitude that risks sacrilege. He warns us to examine ourselves, and to forgive people who’ve sinned against us, and to not partake if we’re in unrepented sin or in an attitude of unforgiveness towards someone. There’s no suggestion that the communion forgives or remits sins - on the contrary, that it magnifies the sinful state for partaking when you’re not in a repentant, forgiving, and/or self-examining attitude.
The Charismatic Christian community mostly view the communion (their word for Eucharist) as a mostly symbolic act, that symbolizes unity, agreement with each other and God, a focal point for self-reflection, an act of connection and devotion to Jesus, and an act that connects them spiritually if not temporally nor physically to the actual Last Supper. Some will abstain on occasions where they feel God wouldn’t approve of them taking it, or they feel they’d bring disrepute upon Jesus or judgement upon themselves. In the main, they don’t subscribe to the idea that the bread and wine (or juice) actually physically becomes or acquires the properties of The Saviour.