It is with a deep sense of disappointment that I have to announce that Twitter Communion on August 14th will be cancelled and will be replaced by an alternative form of prayer.
Whilst I have not been absolutely forbidden to perform the Communion on Twitter, British Methodist Church authorities have strongly urged me to cancel it. The main reason for this, they say, is that it comes at difficult time, because the whole issue of performing services like Twitter Communion over the Internet is being re-examined by the Methodist Church. Holding a Twitter Communion before an official conversation has taken place could delay or even jeopardise the tentative steps the Church is taking in this direction.
It was never my intention to be controversial much less confrontational. The whole point of Twitter Communion was to offer the Christians around the world the opportunity to step beyond their differences, to meet in fellowship and love and to celebrate the common-union we all share through Christ’s body and blood.
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2 comments:
It sounds like the Methodist Church is just as awful and intolerant as that extremely hierarchical and clericalistic Roman Catholic Church. What is this world coming to?
This confirms another reason why, praised be the Lord Jesus Christ, I became a Catholic in 1977, being freed from this Methodist heresy, in all its forms...
I'm now a religious priest living the monastic life in the Catholic Church. I am so happy!
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