Methodist converts

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I’m writing a story in which one character converts from methodist to catholic and i’d like to talk with some ex methodist convert who can help me understand a few things, stuff like their experience and such, i know there’s a lot of conversion stories online but it’d work best if i could ask and have an actual conversation with a methodist convert
 
I am ready and willing to discuss. As I am an ex Methodist convert
 
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My mom was a Methodist for a while when she was a child and she said they took communion in the palm, then brought it directly to their mouth, kind of like you eat m&m’s
 
Thank you @(name removed by moderator). It is a beautiful feeling!
 
Really? Huh! Cool! Those crackers could be small though…Did you know that Welch’s Grape Juice was first made so Methodist’s could have an alternative to wine?
 
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Yeah I heard that too. I think the sect used to be a lot more strict in the olden days. All the Methodists I know now are fine with alcohol use
 
Kathleen18 said:
Yep! Staunch Teetotalers for a long time!!
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My Baptist Protestant Thought teacher at my Jesuit college commented that he got in trouble a lot growing up for not understanding why Jesus caught flak for drinking too much Welches . . .

And one Sunday as a Eucharistic Minister, the cup sure smelled grapey, even at the distance I held it.

The priest explained afterwards that unfermented but fermentable wine was approved for alcoholic priests (I had the only cup like that; the one he drank from).

In their therapy/treatment, they were given a glass of their favorite poison, followed by warm salt water until they developed the aversion to the drink itself. He said it was considered bad form for priests to get sick all over the altar during Mass . . … 🙂

hawk
 
I’m. Also an Methodist
What do you want to know more about?
 
You’ll really have to narrow that down a bit…it’s a fair and valid question but it’s a massive one.
 
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Yes no alcohol is allowed in the United Methodist church world wide ,so they use grape juice as the “blood” and normal bread as the “body” aka the host.
 
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My mom was a Methodist for a while when she was a child and she said they took communion in the palm, then brought it directly to their mouth, kind of like you eat m&m’s
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That makes sense, as I remember doing that when I was C of E, and Methodism is an offshoot of the C of E after all.

I’m not sure I’ve eaten m and m’s like that though!
 
It’s not unlike Antabuse, to be honest.

Antabuse is a drug that causes the person taking it to experience severe and immediate hangover symptoms whenever they drink alcohol. The principle is to create aversion to alcohol by causing an imprint of the symptoms on one’s memory and create an aversion to drinking.

The drawback is you have to take the Antabuse to get it to work - which is why now it’s available in an injectable form that one reports to the rehab clinic to receive (and it works, apparently - I was actually talking to our clinical social worker who runs our alcohol treatment program about this drug yesterday). Over time the dose is reduced, until the person no longer feels the need to drink.

I can’t speak for the salt water, of course, but the drug is given in combination with psycho- and cognitive therapies, increasing the overall treatment effectiveness.

Didn’t mean to hijack, but there seems to be little other activity here. 🙂
 
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The drawback is you have to take the Antabuse to get it to work
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A drawback in many cases.

I get a real kick out of the folks that claim Ritalin and other ADD medications are addictive–for crying out loud, a mildly addictive ADD medication would be USEFUL; the big weakness of ADD meds is that, given the ADD, people forget to take them . . .

hawk
 
Yep.

My husband has ADHD. He sets alarms on his phone to remember to take his med, God bless him. 🙂

Folks who claim that have (1) never lived with anyone with ADHD, and/or (2) have no idea of the pharmacology of the drug, and just assume that because it’s a derivative of speed, it must be addictive. It is if you DON’T have ADHD (like college kids who take it to increase concentration) but that’s because they lack the need for it.
 
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