Communion, which is the taking of leavened bread and wine symbolizes the body and blood of Jesus Christ as directed by Him during His last supper with His disciples and the practice has lived with the Christendom, especially the orthodox church till date and it is done every month.
But gradually, the practice is becoming common in the Charismatic as well, where the congregants form qeue to take the communion.
Apart from it symbolizing the body of Christ laid down and His blood spilled on the cross to save mankind, the taking of communion, according to Christian beliefs, also signifies a covenant between the taker and God, with reference to the instructions by God to the Israelites when they were in captivity in Egypt to kill a lamp and sprinkle its blood at their doorpost so that when the Angel of destruction descends to kill every first born of the Egyptians and sees the blood, He will pass over (Passover) that house.
So according to Christian religious principle, anyone who steps to the Altar to take the communion should be someone without blemish.
It is therefore required that it is only proper for people such as the elderly in the church, the baptized and those who are married to take the communion.
It is believed that any other person such as the unmarried and fornicating do not deserve to take the communion, as they invoke curses on themselves, by so doing, though there is no recorded incident in the Bible where one took the communion and died because he or she was blemished.
Therefore the question that remains on the lips of most skeptics is whether the taking of Communion is a Covenant or a Curse? Credit: Rev. Samuel Temeng–Founder and General Overseer, Christian Family Solution Chapel.
By Robert Ayanf