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Originally Posted by R Harris  Interesting. What is your reasoning for this alternation?
I think the evening method is the biblical one, but our church does not have the wherewithall to do it. | Unfortunately, the evening service has less people that attend, so practically, we are able to have the Supper with a single table. It really wouldn't be possible in the morning (it is a small chapel with little room for tables). A year or so ago the 3rd Lord's Day evening Supper was added while retaining the original practice for the 1st Lord's Day morning. It is a bit irregular to have two different practices, but at the moment I think it's the wisest choice for the congregation -- and it allows anyone who would like to partake in the Supper twice a month to do so. 
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Casey Bessette
Westminster OPC • West Suburbs of Chicago
"It is part of the calling of the ekklesia to learn to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge and also to make known within the world of science 'the manifold wisdom of God' in order that the final end of theology, as of all things, may be that the name of the Lord is glorified. Theology and dogmatics, too, exist for the Lord's sake." — Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1, p. 46
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