[Albion Wilde]

there was a time in Mehodist Churches when that Pastor would not have have been able to be a Methodist Pastor. That was when taking communion went with the acceptance of what communion meant. It was not a “greeting” to believers and non-believers alike.

Some friends of mine were on a call committee recently interviewing prospective new pastors. During the interview, one of the women pastors told a cute anedote about how a child had been hungry and whiny during a meeting that his mother had brought him along to, so the woman pastor gave the child some of the communion wafer. Thankfully, she did not get the job. Women are an abomination as head pastors of congregations.

[Wuli]

I do not believe any intrinsic purity is in the wafers themselves or their manufacture. The purity is in the wafer as it is being offered in communion. If the offer or the acceptance is false, the purity is not given to or accpted in the heart of the recipient.

Giving such a wafer to a crying infant has nothing to do with communion, nor does it disgrace it.

That all is neither here nor than as far as accepting or rejecting women as pastors. THAT is a separate matter unrelated to the incident you mentioned.