Communion

It's amazing to me how communion has found its way in the religious community to mean so many different things. First, I am amazed at how the Last Supper has become the last snack. Bread and wine has been replaced with small crackers (not even Saltines) and grape juice. The funny thing is that is not even the best part. The part that gets me is by not examining the heart before partaking of these, that the person is heaping judgment upon their own head. Now the first response before I go any further will be, "well the bible says that. It says to examine yourself." To which I say, "true." But by not seeing the scripture in its proper context, all that is being done is proof-texting. What is the heart of examing oneself prior to taking communion? It can be found in the same passage of scripture just a little before the aforementioned text. You see, there it can be found that honoring has nothing to do with not remembering what was done, but rather how people were conducting themselves during the meal. It actually says in scripture that people were getting drunk and eating all of the food so much so that there were those who actually did not get to enjoy anything. It would be like you inviting me to eat at your house, offering me a beer and before dinner was even properly served, I ate up everything in the house. How honoring would that be to you? Religion is all about the act, relationship is all about the heart.