Ben Zartman
Puritan Board Junior
I have perused several threads, recent and older, in which the use of wine is debated. Some say any sort of juice will do; others that anything extracted from a grape; others that if fermented wine is not used, nothing has happened.
Not wishing to discuss that here, just setting up my question: does the type of bread matter to anyone? Would anyone regard communion as not celebrated if a gluten-free cracker were used? Does anyone care if the little round wafers commonly used are manufactured by papist monks (this is a claim I've heard regarding one brand of them)? What about oyster crackers? What about the minister visibly breaking a loaf in the sight of the congregation?
I won't have time to interact minute-by-minute, but will log in morning and evening as time allows to read replies.
Also, this is not a burning question for me--I'm pretty well settled on the lees of my sacramentology just wondering where other people are.
Not wishing to discuss that here, just setting up my question: does the type of bread matter to anyone? Would anyone regard communion as not celebrated if a gluten-free cracker were used? Does anyone care if the little round wafers commonly used are manufactured by papist monks (this is a claim I've heard regarding one brand of them)? What about oyster crackers? What about the minister visibly breaking a loaf in the sight of the congregation?
I won't have time to interact minute-by-minute, but will log in morning and evening as time allows to read replies.
Also, this is not a burning question for me--I'm pretty well settled on the lees of my sacramentology just wondering where other people are.