Twitter Communions Spark Controversy

Twitter Communions have sparked controversy very recently. The Methodist Conference will review a report that communion services on Twitter and other forms of social media “compromise the integrity of the sacrament". The report also proposed that ministers should be banned from celebrating communion using “electronic means of communication.” This is an extremely controversial topic because more and more churches have been testing out news ways to get more people to be involved in church. This report was written after Methodist minister the Rev. Tim Ross tried to conduct a Twitter communion back in 2010. He didn’t end up going through with the communion and decided to cancel it after Church authorities got involved. Tim Ross talked with Christian Today and he had a different point of view on the matter. "From my perspective, the idea behind remote Communion reinforces the unity of the Church Catholic," he said. "It's a symbolic statement that the Church of Christ is not defined by a parochial togetherness in time and space, but by its universal unity in Christ who, though the power of the Spirit, is always and everywhere present." This issue has many different arguments and will be important to follow.

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