"A retired Methodist minister is to use Twitter to conduct Holy Communion - with his online flock taking bread and wine in front of their PCs. The Rev Tim Ross will tweet out the lines of the Eucharist next month to his 357 followers, and says participants can tweet back "Amen". He hopes that it will unite the faithful across the world. 'Where it could lead, who knows? Maybe one day to a baptism by
Facebook,' he said."
From The Times, Monday July 26 2010, p.9
One of the potentially many problems of this would be that they will not partake of one loaf (1 Cor 10:17).
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No church discipline, either.
Yes, good point. I suppose in principle there could be some kind of online tool / social networking site that would allow a membership list? etc.
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