I still can’t get over the fact that our Intolerista friends are seriously trying to ban hundreds of our young people from taking communion during one of our worship services. The best thing I can figure out is that they have hired Howard Dean as a PR consultant.
In our worship services we practice weekly communion. In our weekly observance of the Lord’s Supper, we invite our very young children to participate along with us, teaching them how to discern the Lord’s body in one another. So we certainly allow the hundreds of Christians in our church who are under the age of twenty-one to partake of communion. The Christian faith is not like one of those rides at Disneyland where you have to be a certain height to participate.
And our Intoleristas opponents are showing themselves to be, not just intolerant (we knew that), but it now appears they have a case of swollen intolerance with a thyroid condition. “We, the Intoleristas of Moscow, do solemnly declare that all children of this particular church, to which we do not belong, must be kept from the Table. The State has a compelling interest to see to it that this happens.”
But why would they ever want to do something like this? Why do they want to keep the wine away from the children? Because the gospel is potent, just like wine. The gospel is not like grape juice.