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Date: 19 October 2004 13:01:05
So I'm in charge of "coordinating" Sunday communion this week - and our church leader is on the phone asking me what we are going to do. I ask whether he wants me to buy grape juice (which is what we normally have) or wine. "Grape juice" he replies, "although we could have wine. I suppose it would be more hygienic. In fact, it would be much more hygienic."
This threw me completely off-balance, since I have never considered the hygiene aspects of communion before. And I said "We could use meths - that would be very hygienic. Or Dettol?" Why do I always say the first thing that pops into my head when dealing with "professional Christians"? Nerves, perhaps?
Is it just me who is blithely not considering the hygiene aspect of communion? Is everyone else on the planet deeply worried when they take the communion cup about the germs they are ingesting at the same time? Or maybe everyone else uses those shot glass thingies like some Methodists and Baptists do? Do tell, I'm intrigued now.