{"id":175,"date":"2010-10-01T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T21:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=175"},"modified":"2010-10-01T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T21:48:59","slug":"world-communion-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2010\/10\/01\/world-communion-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"World Communion Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;By such a supper they portray that they are members and house companions of the Lord Jesus.&#8221;\u00a0 Alexander Mack, Rites and Ordinances<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This weekend many Church of the Brethren communities will be taking part in World Communion Sunday, with a particular Brethren flair.\u00a0 Since the early days of our movement, Brethren have taken the commandment to wash feet just as seriously as the witness of breaking bread\u00a0 and drinking the cup of Christ.\u00a0 In the Church of the Brethren today, nearly<a title=\"Portrait of a People\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=1334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> two thirds<\/a> of our membership attends Love Feast at least once a year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your memories of Love Feast?\u00a0 Where will you celebrate the ordinance this weekend? What is your congregation doing for World Communion Sunday?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brethren Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brethren Press<\/a> has published a thoughtful and beautifully illustrated book on <a title=\"Love Feast Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Feast<\/a> by Frank Ramirez.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Where\u00a0 can you find in the Gospel a plainer command than the words of our Savior to his disciples concerning feet washing?&#8221; Peter Nead, Theological Works<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By such a supper they portray that they are members and house companions of the Lord Jesus.&#8221;\u00a0 Alexander Mack, Rites and Ordinances This weekend many Church of the Brethren communities will be taking part in World Communion Sunday, with a particular Brethren flair.\u00a0 Since the early days of our movement, Brethren have taken the commandment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,232,709,1230,1235],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-another-way-of-living","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-love-feast","tag-world-communion-sunday","tag-worship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}