A new church growth strategy?
Well, okay, it is not…but some day a mega church will use it…just you watch.
Dateline Sweeden….
A number of Swedish churches have decided to serve fortified wine during communion in hopes of reducing the risk of spreading swine flu, according to several media reports.
Church authorities hope that fortified wine will provide better protection than light or alcohol-free wine against the spread of swine flu when the communion cup is passed around.
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“We will have a vicars meeting where we will discuss this issue. Everything points to the fact that we will decide to reintroduce fortified wine during communion,” dean Stieg Berggren told Piteå-Tidningen newspaper.
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Several churches have recommended that visitors shouldn’t partake of communion at all to prevent the spread of swine flu. (Source and the rest of the story)
I should have been Swedish….
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