Our Lighted Path

Some things are okay in day-to-day living, but are not okay for our table of communion at church. And this is coming from a soul who has seen cornbread and even French baguettes as symbols of Jesus's communion body. Until now, I haven't felt a call to say to a pastor that that is so wrong. I've just walked away discouraged. But I'm going to say this now: I'm someone who feels and feels that the first communion bread, at Jesus's dinner with the disciples the night He was betrayed, was a rolled up slab of flat bread, similar to the big slabs of flatbread still made in parts of the Middle East today - although, I believe Jesus's bread was a darker color than today's Middle Eastern versions; because bread during Jesus's first walk with us, didn't have today's bleaching process but was made of whole, stone-ground wheat. I know and I know it's no coincidence that God had in heart to compare His body to the bread of His "Last Supper." ...

  I believe my childhood baptism was a christening instead of baptism. I believe childhood baptism or christening worked to promise me to God's care, no matter what evil would happen in life. Then, in older years, I was baptized in whole. My whole life became God's through new faith in Jesus.  The day I was baptized in wholeness (fullness) of faith, there were a number of strangers who received the alter call at the same time I did, and who went on to be counseled a little. A few of those strangers made a Spirit-led decision, like I did, to be baptized. We received the Holy Spirit, like the first of the church at Pentecost. When I stood waiting at the baptism pool, a member of the church told me she sensed the Holy Spirit on the baptismal water. And, before that, an associate pastor had counseled us a long while, unlike the brief counsel after we had left the prayer alter. The pastor didn't only talk about simple faith in God through Jesus. He counseled against any hell an...