Anyone observing "Great Communion"?

[Snargles]

Are any CoC churches observing the "Great Communion" on October 4? When I did a Grace Centered search on the topic the only thing that popped up was a similar question under Announcements and Classifieds and since that doesn't seem to be too popular a location I thought I would ask again here. Doug Foster has a You Tube video saying all CoC, DOC and ICCoC should participate but I can't see many of us getting involved. I may be the only one in my congregation that has even heard of it.

Are any of you doing anything special on October 4?

[Livelysword]

Are any CoC churches observing the "Great Communion" on October 4? When I did a Grace Centered search on the topic the only thing that popped up was a similar question under Announcements and Classifieds and since that doesn't seem to be too popular a location I thought I would ask again here. Doug Foster has a You Tube video saying all CoC, DOC and ICCoC should participate but I can't see many of us getting involved. I may be the only one in my congregation that has even heard of it.

Are any of you doing anything special on October 4?

Lively:  The great communion?  Got a verse for us to examine that we all need to be partaking of some great communion on October 4th?

[Snargles]

The Great Communion is to observe the 200th anniversary of Thomas Campbell's Declaration and Address. It is a time for all three parts of the Stone-Campbell movement (Disciples of Christ, Churches of Christ and Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ) to acknowledge their common heritage (even though blituri says we don't have a common heritage). I don't know how to do links to You Tube but you can go there and have Doug Foster (a CoC scholar) explain it.

[zoonance]

I doubt any of "us" even know about it.  Please send an announcement to the Christian Chronicle webpage.  They would appreciate it and the word just might get out that way.

[Mere Nick]

Try this.

You can go here to see if one is in your area or maybe find help in organizing one.  Time is running short, though, if there are folks interested in lining something like this up.  For example, for it to do any good in the first place you will need to make sure the meeting is in an upper room.

[blituri]

You will remember that it was in 1906ish that the DISCIPLES / Christian Churches tried to convince the Nashville Census man (I believe the first church count) that they should count the Church of Christ groups as members of their clearly-defined denomination.  The Census taker knew that it was a lie but consulted David Lipscomb who confirmed that they were not part of the same group.  There may have been only 1 church which had been confiscated by the women working under Standard Publishing.  This is what Hughes and Foster has worked so hard to convince the silly that the Church of Christ sected out of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH.  But, the Christian Church was Disciples at the time and would not SECT OUT until about 1927 and not officially until 1971 when the massive sowing of discord began using the lie.

Here is what the Church of Christ was never a part of: Why would you in fact ENDORSE that. Foster is the LEADER FOR THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST and one doubts that many Conservative Christian churches would take the mark (or the sip)

The only ANTAGONIZM has been between the Christian Church and the Disciples of Christ and if they want to UNIFY they should rejoin the Disciples. They won't because they would not agree with them since they are as far removed from the Declaration and Address as the Pope.

Here defines the Disciples of Christ and it would be just as logical to try to REUNITE with the Baptists out of which so many came from the Church of Christ.

http://www.piney.com/Hamm-Disciples.html

Here is the new LOGO of the Disciples of Christ which is a MARK of the end time if there could be one.

The Lord's Supper is to show forth or to preach or evangelize by this remembrance: why would anyone want to engage in honoring Thomas Campbell and defact observing the Eucharist or Mass?

Foster who never read any original source says:

While there are other events and documents that we have also remembered, everyone agreed that this 1809 document truly formed the constitution for our movement.

2009 is the 200th anniversary of our call for Christian unity. In his "Declaration and Address" (written in 1809), Thomas Campbell said that the Church in the whole world is united...it is One

That's the blackest of lies.  No one trying to "unify" with the Christian Church claiming that they were once ONE GROUP (denomination?) have never included the Disciples of Christ.  In one of the earliest confessionals WHICH broke Madison in Nashvill into pieces had the Disciples only as "observers." Now, under the leadership of Douglas Foster the Disciples of Christ PRESUMES to take the leadership of AFFIRMING their denomination.

[Mere Nick]

Here is what the Church of Christ was never a part of: Why would you in fact ENDORSE that.

I'm not endorsing anything but just finding the video Snargles had mentioned.  As for Foster, I suspect of all the preachers in the world, he is one of them.

[HRoberson]

Are any CoC churches observing the "Great Communion" on October 4? When I did a Grace Centered search on the topic the only thing that popped up was a similar question under Announcements and Classifieds and since that doesn't seem to be too popular a location I thought I would ask again here. Doug Foster has a You Tube video saying all CoC, DOC and ICCoC should participate but I can't see many of us getting involved. I may be the only one in my congregation that has even heard of it.

Are any of you doing anything special on October 4?

I think I'm the one that posted the thread in Announcements. Yes, we are hosting a community communion service and have a pretty good representation of the various streams (DOC, ICC, International (or what's left of them), and CoC. The service will be a capella (at the insistence of the ICC and DoC folks), will last about an hour, and will have the DoC female pastors word the liturgy for the Supper. The actual distribution of the bread and wine will be at tables around the auditorium.

At least, that's the plan so far.

I expect more ICC and DoC folks than CoC folks.

Too bad.

[HRoberson]

Are any CoC churches observing the "Great Communion" on October 4? When I did a Grace Centered search on the topic the only thing that popped up was a similar question under Announcements and Classifieds and since that doesn't seem to be too popular a location I thought I would ask again here. Doug Foster has a You Tube video saying all CoC, DOC and ICCoC should participate but I can't see many of us getting involved. I may be the only one in my congregation that has even heard of it.

Are any of you doing anything special on October 4?

Lively:  The great communion?  Got a verse for us to examine that we all need to be partaking of some great communion on October 4th?

It's a Sunday. Let it go.

[Snargles]

Hoyt, you are right, it was your post I saw in the announcements section. That is an obscure corner of GC so I brought it up again here.

You said the singing will be AC at the insistence of the ICC and DOC. Did the CoC have to ask for this or do you see this as an example of the two groups being sensitive to our beliefs and trying to give up a little to reach out to us? If they cut us some slack is there anyway we can play nice with them without compromising our principles?

I know you are part of a liberal congregation but how are other congregations in the area responding? Was it a hard sell to get your congregation involved?

You mention "bread and wine." Are you using wine in a generic sense or do you use for real wine rather than Welchs? No theological principles involved here, I've just never been to a congregation that used fermented FOTV and I've wondered if anyone still serves it.

[HRoberson]

Hoyt, you are right, it was your post I saw in the announcements section. That is an obscure corner of GC so I brought it up again here.

You said the singing will be AC at the insistence of the ICC and DOC. Did the CoC have to ask for this or do you see this as an example of the two groups being sensitive to our beliefs and trying to give up a little to reach out to us? If they cut us some slack is there anyway we can play nice with them without compromising our principles?

I know you are part of a liberal congregation but how are other congregations in the area responding? Was it a hard sell to get your congregation involved?

You mention "bread and wine." Are you using wine in a generic sense or do you use for real wine rather than Welchs? No theological principles involved here, I've just never been to a congregation that used fermented FOTV and I've wondered if anyone still serves it.

We did not ask for a capella - they brought it up and insisted on it. Apparently they like 200-400 people singing a capella. We normally use grape juice, but I don't know what the final decision will be for the 4th. Either works for me.

The response from other CoC is mixed. There is a broad range of congregations in town and the response will be mixed. We expect there will be a mixed reaction from our own congregation when they day actually arrives. Many will attend; others won't.

[Snargles]

Apparently they like 200-400 people singing a capella.

That is one of the great things about singing a capella. On a good day it is a joy to sing and sounds like a choir of angels (but on a bad day it sounds like drunken Bulgarian peasants).

Good luck. I am looking forward to a post-communion report.

[Mere Nick]

I asked an elder or two today and neither of them had heard about it.

[farouk]

S:

Oh, well, I guess you aren't running for Congress from Chicago's Bulgarian neighbourhoods.

Apparently they like 200-400 people singing a capella.

That is one of the great things about singing a capella. On a good day it is a joy to sing and sounds like a choir of angels (but on a bad day it sounds like drunken Bulgarian peasants).

Good luck. I am looking forward to a post-communion report.

[blonddad]

I wore my drunken Bulgarian peasants CD out.  I've been a huge fan of them since I saw them as the opening act for the Dead Kennedys back in the 80's.

Little known fact- they always insisted on recording in an upper room, as should be the case.