"Red: Week One" - Daily Reflection Friday, October 8, 2015
When I was a small child I remember sitting in the old wooden pews of the Fairfield Road Baptist Church in Greenville, SC while we passed the elements for communion. My parents would take the crackers from the plate and the tiny cups filled with juice, and would pass them on without including me. I remember smelling the scent of the crackers and juice, and wishing like the dickens that I could have some. I seem to recall my stomach growling as well. It had been a long time since breakfast, and our church services lasted for what seemed like an eternity. In the tradition within which I was raised, children who had not "accepted Christ," and been baptized by immersion (what we called 'believers baptism') were not allowed to partake in the Lord's Supper. At the time I had done neither, so I got passed over. The practice of excluding children until they are fully initiated into the faith, or are educated on the meaning of the Lord's Supper is ...