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My apologies. John Weaver's sermon does have something to say about the meaning of 'breaking bread', but you are correct that it is a sort of 'polemic'.
| No problem. He also had some things to say about deacons that go against what is commonly believed in many cases. | Seeing how it is your thread, would you mind going off topic and reminding me of those things? | He also disagreed with the idea that only the deacons could distribute the elements (apparently this is a belief among some Baptists, I was not familiar with it prior to listening to the message) and also questioned whether the men appointed to serve tables in Acts 6 were deacons in the way that we think of them today. He also noted that often congregations will vote in a deacon who is 180 degrees opposed to the pastor so as to cause trouble for the pastor.
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Mandeville, LA
"There are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it--the lunatic fringe in all reform movements." Theodore Roosevelt
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