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Date: 05 December 2007 06:41:07
I live in a non-conformist world where people drink, but not at church and have done for over quarter of a century and so this is my normality.
Yesterday I mentioned to a friend that it is likely Chrimbo lunch will be at church and she chuckled slightly, (having seen me do a fish impression at the works do on Saturday), at the thought of this. I assured her it would be ok as we don't have alcohol on the church premesis and she went into kind of a state of shock, saying "what about the wine at communion?" and "how does transubstantiation take place then?" and other such questions. As I explained to it to her, (and the other nearby people on the train who began very obviously listening to the conversation), I realised that people who aren't familiar with the "low church" way of doing stuff find it unusual. Yet as I explained the history and reasons for keeping this going in the modern world we both realised that it made sense, kind of. I also realised that as an institutionalised Christian I expect a much higher level of knowledge from those I speak to than alot of people have. They tend to be familiar with one tradition they may have been part of in the past but not the broad range of ways of doing stuff.