The Lord’s Supper: Save It From COVID-19

[340 words] One of the most disruptive things to me about COVID-19 has been the Lord’s Supper. For more than forty years, I’ve had a structured meditation for the Lord’s Supper. There are reflections while I’m eating the bread and another series of thoughts for the fruit of the vine.  During the year, we’ve visited other churches that use the individual packages with the bread and fruit of the vine. In many of those, the one presiding provided very little time for thinking: “Do this in remembrance of me” (1 Corinthians 11:24).  The most extreme case: a brother led the prayer for the bread. I’d already pulled the seal for that. I started to pull the seal from the fruit of the vine. Before I’d finished that brief task, he was praying before taking the fruit of the vine. Before I had swallowed the fruit of the vine, he was…