An open letter to all LCMS pastors whose congregations are still using disposable plastic communion cups. — Gottesdienst
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And spare me your receptionist nonsense too. By some weird calculus some rationalize that only what is actually consumed is Jesus’ blood, because that’s all he intended it to be for. But notwithstanding his intentions about it, that’s not what he actually said about what it is. He took the cup, blessed it, and said of it—the contents in the cup at the moment he said this—that it’s his blood. And you’re going to tell me that what he really meant to consecrate were only those molecules in that cup that actually ended up getting consumed? So his words don’t really apply to anything left over, or even to anything in the cup that he knew would be left over? That’s a worse kind of linguistic contortion than any Calvinist ever dreamt of. Honestly.
So you’ve been putting up with disposable, plastic shot glasses for how many years? And letting the altar guild just pitch them in the trash with remaining drops in them? Just think about it, will you? What are those remaining drops? Can you abide their willful disposal in the trash? Or down the drain? Brother, if this pricks your conscience, it should. Get busy about this already.
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