Which Protestant Denominations use wine?

[Syele]

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but there have been Anglicans in the US since the American Revolution. They are and were called Episcopalians.

You’re not very sorry or you wouldn’t post it. I really don’t care what they are called. I just want to know if there are any OTHER denominations that are using Wine in their services. (This really should nto be so hard. )

 

[Harri_Laaksonen]

Lutherans generally use wine, although some parishes will have grape juice as an alternative for people who can not take alcohol, like AA members.

I think that some Presbyterians use wine at least on occasion.

The Protestants that come out of the “holiness” traditions will not use wine, and generally only celebrate communion once a month, at most. Some congregations have a communion service only once or twice a year.

 

[Bill_Pick]

I drink blood at mass. But it is holy blood, Jesus’.

A Great post A+

 

[crazzeto]

I’m curious what the justification for Changing the forumla implemented by Christ is. On the day of the last supper he consecrated wheat bread (we can debate levened or not) and wine, transforming him into his blood and body (which is what I also comsume, another +1 for the previous post).

Even if you want to subscribe to the “just a symbol” theology, Christ used wine and wheat bread.

 

[Syele]

I’m curious what the justification for Changing the forumla implemented by Christ is. On the day of the last supper he consecrated wheat bread (we can debate levened or not) and wine, transforming him into his blood and body (which is what I also comsume, another +1 for the previous post).

Even if you want to subscribe to the “just a symbol” theology, Christ used wine and wheat bread.

Short answer is they caved to prohibition. When it came down to peer pressure and Government restrictions they didnt hold up to what the Bible said over what the world was telling them.

 

[Looking_back]

My husband’s Lutheran Church uses both and communicants signal which they want. I always guessed that those who asked for grape juice came from other traditions or were recovering from drinking/drug addictions.

 

[Lapey]

A Great post A+

Thanks Bill, I had to add my two cents!

 

[MyRdmrLvs]

Are you Protestant then?

but what was it before the priest does the transtubawadiacallit?

I attended a nondenom as a child ;grape juice. a pentecostal; grape juice and a baptist; grape juice.

So if a Catholic is an alcoholic does he drink the wine? I cant, even a small amount would trigger my alcoholism.

 

[Lapey]

but what was it before the priest does the transtubawadiacallit?

I attended a nondenom as a child ;grape juice. a pentecostal; grape juice and a baptist; grape juice.

So if a Catholic is an alcoholic does he drink the wine? I cant, even a small amount would trigger my alcoholism.

All Catholic Churches use wine. There is a type of “grape juice” that is available to the alcoholic, as the priest is a man and has problems with addiction just like me and you.

I don’t remember the name of it but it is a fermented grape juice with no alcohol content, someone here can come up with the name as it escapes me now.

One other thought, it is not required that a communicant receive both species of the Eucharist. Many do not partake of the Saving Cup because of the H1N1 scare or other reason, I personally will never walk past a cup of my Saviors Blood without partaking.

But it is your choice.

 

[MyRdmrLvs]

All Catholic Churches use wine. There is a type of “grape juice” that is available to the alcoholic, as the priest is a man and has problems with addiction just like me and you.

I don’t remember the name of it but it is a fermented grape juice with no alcohol content, someone here can come up with the name as it escapes me now.

One other thought, it is not required that a communicant receive both species of the Eucharist. Many do not partake of the Saving Cup because of the H1N1 scare or other reason, I personally will never walk past a cup of my Saviors Blood without partaking.

But it is your choice.

H1N1 ? Does everyone drink from the same cup? I am really going to attend a mass. every weekend something comes up so I miss it.

 

[FabiusMaximus]

May I ask what Church you attend?

It’s a non-denominational Evangelical church, Tabernacle Christian Church, in CT.

 

[Lapey]

H1N1 ? Does everyone drink from the same cup? I am really going to attend a mass. every weekend something comes up so I miss it.

Yes, it is a community cup! At my home parish there are four cup ministers and all drink from the four cups.

This is important.

 

[ALLGIRLS]

The Vinyard Christian Fellowship (technically “nondenominational”, but they’re worldwide and have a uniform set of “beliefs”, which would make them a denomination, no?) that my SIL and BIL attend use wine. In fact, that’s one of the reasons they left the S. Baptist church, they couldn’t see the use of grape juice as Biblical. I don’t know about all the Vinyard churches, though, some might be different.

In Christ,

Ellen

 

[MyRdmrLvs]

Yes, it is a community cup! At my home parish there are four cup ministers and all drink from the four cups.

This is important.

Why? not that I want to go far off topic.

 

[Lapey]

Why? not that I want to go far off topic.

It’s the tradition which started with Christ at the last supper; there weren’t tiny little cups to put grape juice in. According to what can be determined from scripture and tradition wine was used at the institution of the Eucharistic and it was consumed from one cup, not each to their own. “…He took the cup, gave thanks then gave it to His disciples and said, take and drink.”

I find it funny that one of the most vocal of all critics of the Catholic Church, as far as accuracy to scripture goes are the Baptists, when they are the most inaccurate on this one. I know not all sects of the Baptist Church are the same, there are so many.

But the simple answer is scripture and tradition; it goes no further than that. Most outside of the Catholic Church will disagree with this next statement but I will say it anyway, not as insult to anybody, only a profession of what I truly believe. There is nothing about the Catholic Church, in its practices or tradition that is outside of scripture, nothing.

 

[Zenas]

Independent Fundamental Baptists for the most part use wine. Southern Baptists generally use grape juice.

One thing I never understood. Southern Baptists insist on baptizing by immersion because that is the way it was done in the New Testament. They want to conform their practices exactly with the New Testament church. However, they will use grape juice for their communion service, which is not the way it was done in the New Testament church. Can anyone explain this contradiction?

 

[ALLGIRLS]

Independent Fundamental Baptists for the most part use wine. Southern Baptists generally use grape juice.

One thing I never understood. Southern Baptists insist on baptizing by immersion because that is the way it was done in the New Testament. They want to conform their practices exactly with the New Testament church. However, they will use grape juice for their communion service, which is not the way it was done in the New Testament church. Can anyone explain this contradiction?

That’s interesting. I know some IF Baptists, and they are TOTAL teetotalers, in that they believe that alcohol is evil, and when the Bible says “wine”, it means “new wine”, which they insist was unfermented, basically grape juice. I’ve found the IF Baptists way more “hard core” than the S. Baptists.

In Christ,

Ellen

 

[Jolly_Joe]

Independent Fundamental Baptists for the most part use wine. Southern Baptists generally use grape juice.

One thing I never understood. Southern Baptists insist on baptizing by immersion because that is the way it was done in the New Testament. They want to conform their practices exactly with the New Testament church. However, they will use grape juice for their communion service, which is not the way it was done in the New Testament church. Can anyone explain this contradiction?

The basic rule is that distinctives become very important, really much more important than they would be originally or theologically. Distinctives have a habit of becoming the marks of the church in people’s minds.

Immersion was a distinctive and so became overly important, indeed if you read Foxe’s
Book of Martyrs you can read a made up history where it was used as the sole mark of the church using even those that if they lived today wouldn’t be considered Christian even by those who think the book is accurate.

Not drinking alcohol became a mark of being a Christian to many during the Holiness and Prohibition movements. Hence it once again became a mark of the church and overly important.

 

[MyRdmrLvs]

Independent Fundamental Baptists for the most part use wine. Southern Baptists generally use grape juice.

One thing I never understood. Southern Baptists insist on baptizing by immersion because that is the way it was done in the New Testament. They want to conform their practices exactly with the New Testament church. However, they will use grape juice for their communion service, which is not the way it was done in the New Testament church. Can anyone explain this contradiction?

new wine is wine that is not yet fermented but it was still considered wine. If the Catholic church offers grape juice to the alcoholic then the pope must not be to concerned about its substitution. I take no issue with tradition, I think its very important to some people, but even you draw a line in how far you take it. the disciples wore tunics and sandals but you where modern clothes. they most likely were laying around a low table and passed the cup around, is that how you do it?. I doubt they all used one cup as some were getting drunk. But if that is your tradition and it brings you closer to Christ then that is a beautiful thing! I dont mind telling you that I wish we used something better for the bread. they are these little tiny things that take the symbolism to extreme.

 

[MyRdmrLvs]

That’s interesting. I know some IF Baptists, and they are TOTAL teetotalers, in that they believe that alcohol is evil, and when the Bible says “wine”, it means “new wine”, which they insist was unfermented, basically grape juice. I’ve found the IF Baptists way more “hard core” than the S. Baptists.

In Christ,

Ellen

I am an alcoholic/junky so I cant have wine at all but the Bible is very clear that there is only a prohibition on drunkeness not on alcohol. enjoy your wine! I would if I could.