Theology Thoughts
Christ's Calling
What's in a name?
Practice, Practice
Final Jeopardy Question
100
The frequency that Methodists are encouraged to practice communion today and the historical reason this did not become the norm in the early Methodist church.
What is every Sunday and a shortage of pastors in the early American Methodist Church?
100
True or false? Within the Methodist tradition, anyone who answers with faith to this invitation has a right to the sacrament.
What is true?
100
Derives from the Latin word missio, literally “sending forth,” and indicates that this celebration brings the worship service to a close by sending forth the congregation with God’s blessing to live as God’s people in the world.
What is mass?
100
The reason United Methodist serve grape juice during communion.
What is our involvement in the Prohibition movement?
200
John Wesley famously preached on the meaning and importance of Holy Communion in this sermon.
What is "The Duty of Constant Communion"?
200
The reason Methodists give holy communion to children?
What is because children are part of the covenant community.
200
During the years in which Methodism was beginning and growing, [this person] communed an average of four to five times a week.
Who is John Wesley?
200
The reason we are discouraged from preforming drop in communion.
What is that it is "contrary to the communal nature of the sacrament, which is the celebration of the gathered community of faith"? p.23
300
According to Wesley, we grow as Christian disciples through the means of grace, including sacraments, offered to us in this activity.
What is "the public worship of God"?
300
Holy communion always offers this to us.
What is grace? p.11
300
In eighteenth-century England it was an evangelical movement that included a revival of emphasis on the sacraments.
What is Methodism?
300
The location where the pastor stands during communion and the reason for this.
What is behind the table and to represent Christ serving his disciples?
400
Consistent with our Anglican heritage, we often refer to sacraments by this phrase regarding grace.
What is "an outward [and visible] sign of an inward [and invisible] grace"?
400
How does article XVIII, describes the Lord’s Supper?
What is "as a sacrament of our redemption by Christ’s death"? p.12
400
The name "this holy mystery" comes from this ancient Greek word for the sacraments.
What is mysterion?
400
The role of the congregation in communion.
What is they "are participants in the ministry of offering praise and worship to God and in the servant work of mutual ministry"? p. 20
500
These traditional names for the communion service reference respectively: our remembrance of Jesus' last meal with his disciples, the collective gathering of the people of God in the Spirit, the sacrament as an act of thanksgiving, and our role as disciples sent into the world after receiving the sacrament.
What are "the Lord's Supper," "Holy Communion," "the Eucharist," and "the Mass"?
500
How does the article XVI in the articles of Religion of the Methodist Church describe the sacrament?
What are "certain signs of grace and God’s good will toward us"? P-12
500
Protestant Reformers in the sixteenth century rejected this teaching but had diverse ideas among themselves.
What is transubstantiation?
500
The three parts of the communion liturgy and what they represent.
What is the thankful remembrance of God's mighty acts of creation (God the father), the words of institution (Jesus) and the blessing (Holy Spirit)?
500
The part of the communion liturgy must be preformed by a person with sacramental authority.
What is the epiklesis (pour out your spirit... etc.)?
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