mikao's world

on communion

this is not very eloquent, but i have been wondering lately, why is it we never celebrate communion at a meal? why is it always in a church service? did Jesus do communion at a church service?

for awhile i was noticing it was in vogue to do communion services at the churches i was going to where you had to walk up to the servers and get your bread and grape juice... but then we have gone back to the passing around. and sometimes it is "cool" to do the dipping of the bread, but then we go back to the little cups. when i was interning at a (free methodist) church in illinois i can remember having to ask what the kneeling benches were for at the front of the church because i had never seen them before (i've only ever seen one methodist church in Canada that i can recall).

each church has a different "proper" way of serving communion, but in fact it is merely tradition. why is it that we so impose our traditions on something like this? we do not do it the way Jesus did, but our eyes are blind. but does it really matter?