Why do Mormons use bread and water for communion?

[Horton]

I wonder if cost might have something to do with it. Some wine, ain’t cheap. Some grape juice is.

Could be. I know the Reformed church my mother still attends has open communion and I bet most of the parents wouldn’t want their children to even have a taste of wine. Rather than just having their kids opt out I’m sure they would raise a ruckus. I know in that particular church there is little catechesis/education regarding what communion really is even as watered down as it is for them.

 

[adamhovey1988]

Could be. I know the Reformed church my mother still attends has open communion and I bet most of the parents wouldn’t want their children to even have a taste of wine. Rather than just having their kids opt out I’m sure they would raise a ruckus. I know in that particular church there is little catechesis/education regarding what communion really is even as watered down as it is for them.

Yikes, but that gives me an idea for another post

 

[RebeccaJ]

Hmm. I guess it could be that’s how the Mormons use of water during communion came from.

I’d place a wager that the temperance movement spotlighted the use of an alcoholic beverage being used in their sacrament meetings. Those Methodists living in darkness, forsaking all alcohol, had one upped the prophets of Mormonism. Appearance is everything in Mormonism.