I can't agree with Donald Macleod that if each communicant receives the bread and the wine from a minister rather than from his companions "we are encouraging priestcarft and superstition". Who knows what this might lead people to think, but it certainly doesn't necessarily follow. We could equally be maintaining good order, church discipline or the unity of word and sacrament.
It seems to me not entirely wrong to think of the minister as the representative of Christ, although of course he isn't Christ and we don't want ministers with Messiah-complexes or who are thought of as the Mediator between God and man.
A Faith to Live By (Christian Focus, 1998) p243 quoted in Maclean, The Lord's Supper p178
Monday, January 25, 2010
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