So we have another question here by—I don't know if I'm butchering your name—but Tyra Root. Let me put it up. Okay. What are the principles, practices, and/or mindsets the early Christians had, did, in regard to the Lord's Supper that you think would be most edifying to the Church today? Okay. I gave some thought to your question over the last day, and I think narrowing it down to two things. One was, every Sunday they celebrated communion. That is universal.
It's there from the earliest mentions of communion, and it's terrible that the Church got away from that. The early Anabaptists—is it Bern? I believe so, the Confession of Faith—Bern, Switzerland, not Bern, Indiana—that every time they met, they had communion, which I take that to mean several times a week, and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, in the early Church, yeah, some churches every day, you could come to church in the morning before you went to work and have communion before you went to work.
So to have it less than once a week, to me, we're robbing ourselves of a wonderful channel of grace and a wonderful benefit. So that would be one of the practices I would highlight. The other one was a feeling of reverence, not of worshiping the bread and wine, but yeah, this is something reverential. Jesus said, "This is my body. This is my blood," and to treat it with respect, not to go to the extreme of the Roman Catholics, but I have seen churches—it sort of bothered me. I mean, they'll do it in a paper cup.
That's valid. I mean, you can do that, but to me, that's not showing reverence for the blood of Christ to treat it that way. It doesn't have to be a silver goblet, but at least something that shows some reverence. And the mood of it should be also a respectful, reverent mood. So those would be the principles or practices that I would bring out myself. Thank you for that.
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