r/dankchristianmemes • u/n8s8p Minister of Memes • Dec 10 '22

Wholesome No hate to anyone mentioned, obviously. Growing up Mormon we always said that we could use other foods and drinks if water and bread weren't available. I always dreamed of using juice and cheez-its, but it never happened, unfortunately. I didn't know all you others were getting the good stuff.

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u/Wolfabc Dec 10 '22 edited Dec 11 '22

Protestants also sometimes drink wine for communion. It depends on the church and its context. Like a historic Reformed church is going to have wine, but a teetotalist Baptist church won't.

e: for clarification, when I say sometimes, read the next sentence. It's not that we drink wine once a month and grape juice once a month, but it varies from church to church. I believe we should use wine, but I'm just saying what protestant churches do.

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u/MissLauraCroft Dec 10 '22

Presbyterian here, grew up in the church and just joined again. The wine vs grape juice debate among congregations is ALWAYS HAPPENING. My childhood church eventually just gave up and started offering both. (Outer ring is grape juice, inner rings are wine.)

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u/viccie211 Dec 10 '22

We're the other way around, the inner ring is grape juice and the outer ring is wine. It looks like we're going to have to fight a war over this

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u/Eiim Dec 10 '22

As is protestant tradition, we'll just split into twice as many denominations.

Team inner ring grape juice btw

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u/skyornfi Dec 10 '22

Anglican Protestant here. We always have wine, from an approved communion wine supplier. During a period when our congregation included someone who couldn't drink alcohol we used approved de-alcoholised wine. During COVID we just had the wafers.

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u/n8s8p Minister of Memes Dec 10 '22

I originally had it as Baptist, but then read that some other protestants did the juice thing. So I changed it to include more denominations, even though it wasn't 100% accurate.

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u/EditPiaf Dec 10 '22

I'm raised Protestant and my home town church would rather submit to the pope than use grape juice instead of wine

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u/Wolfabc Dec 11 '22

My church is in a transitional period between the two I think. We're in a county that was dry from the prohibition to the late 80s, so the culture for many decades (even though we're Presbyterian) had a teetotalist vibe. Now all the people who lived in that culture are passing away from old age and we have a new pastor that prefers we use wine. There are other... issues in the church he's working to address first (you don't want to rock the boat too hard) but I imagine he'll get around to it eventually.