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(Dale Patterson) We as
Methodists don't necessarily
have communion every Sunday.
We might in some churches.
But in general we don't. Why?
That goes back to our roots.
As Methodist clergy in the late
1700s, when the denomination
first got started, a pastor who
could administer communion and
baptism, was on a circuit
traveling around.
They might be going to
12 different places.
They may be going to 20
or 30 different churches
on their circuit, which
means they couldn't be
in church every Sunday.
The pastor always gave communion
when he got to a church.
And he might get to that
church once a month,
maybe once every 2 months.
We were used to that and then as
our pastors went on shorter and
shorter circuits to ultimately
just serving just one or two or
maybe three churches, that
habit has just stayed with us.
So our communion happens maybe
once a month in some churches.
In some places it's maybe
3 or 4 times a year.
And it's just part
of our history.
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