The pentecostal view of communion has been largely been on of the "rememberance meal"...Catholics and others actually believe that when Jesus himself said "take and eat, this IS my body", the participation in communion means we are consuming the flesh (for Catholics it actually means the literal flesh of Christ in that the wafer changes inside the mouth).
From my readings of early Church, these orthodox views would have certainly have been held by the earliest of Christians, as one of the charges laid on them by their persecutors who conveniently took this all out of context was that they were to be percieved as a sect of flesh eating cannibals!
But the emphasis being on 'This IS my body, given for you, for the forgiveness of sins' is something I find somewhat mystical and entirely special....and when I am at a low point, something I spiritually crave - especially when dispensed from a common cup in a more intimate setting.
There is just something wonderful about the whole thing, when considered in this context, that just cannot be put into words.
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thanks for your comments on Phils blog . Jason
Andrew, I do remember much about Hilarion - the zeal of youth, without the responsibility and wisdom of age! We were the youth in the time somewhere between Jesus Freaks and-Prosperity Teaching. From memory, it was the era of Vineyard, YWAM and home Churches! :-)
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