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  • Women Serving Communion at RH?
    • An Observer
      Posted Mar 24, 2008 4:00 PM

      Thank you for the benefit of the doubt regarding women serving communion at RH. Drives me UP THE WALL when people comment about things based on what they've "heard" or otherwise have no personal experience with or about.

      In keeping with that, I am not a member at RH, even though I visit periodically, hence I cannot make an informed observation about the "special servant" issue, or how and why the eldership there took those actions. I have not heard any of their teaching on the issue, nor was I around for the circumstances at the time.

      My "guess" (and it is JUST that...a "guess") is that "special servant" at RH translates into what many congregations would call a "ministry leader" (informally) or "chair" (formally) of some sort of ministry committee, which I've observed in many congregations to be functionally equivalent to a "deacon"... i.e. "Benevolence Committee", "Education Committee", "Outreach Ministry", etc. Again, just a guess, NOT a statement of fact as to the situation at RH.

      I will comment, however, that I have great difficulty in viewing a deacon's role (or an elder's or minister's role for that matter) as an "office", as you put it, as if a political position to which one aspires. These are roles of service and leadership, rooted in relationships and concern for the church and the community of the lost. To put the term "office" on these roles does an injustice to the responsibilities of the individuals who fulfill those duties.

      Lastly, I did not "fail" to mention the congregation I spoke of that had women participating in the serving of communion. I deliberately did not mention it b/c I do not want that congregation to become "marked" in this forum. I believe this forum does MUCH more harm to the church that it does good (another topic for another day), and I do not want to encumber this congregation, which continues to reach lost souls in an otherwise very secular part of the country.

      What I meant by "in conjunction with and under the leadership of their husbands” is that MEN lead the prayers for each element of communion (as well as the other aspects of the worship assembly), and that husband and wife teams share the responsibility of passing the plates to their assigned sections. So, whereas in most congregations, two men may be paired up to pass the communion elements to a section of the congregation, this duty is fulfilled by a man and his wife together serving a section of the congregation.

      Quite a beautiful means of a husband and wife being able to serve together, in my opinion, especially in the current culture of so many couples (even couples IN THE CHURCH) living emotionally and spiritually distant from each other. And as I mentioned, this the ONE and ONLY congregation in which I've ever observed this.
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