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This is my blood - a Christian perspective
The practice of communion has its beginning in the Last Supper, when Jesus pointed to a cup of wine as a symbol of the blood he would soon shed on his disciples' behalf.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2026:27-28&version=NIV
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Wine, Communion, Blood, Last Supper, This Is My Blood
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I have taken the Lord’s Supper in church and I have taken it with other disciples when we were having a worship service some where other than “Church” and I have used grape juice and also red wine.
At my church a Church Of Christ, we take the Lord’s Supper every Sunday, and I understand the need to use grape juice at a church service due to people that are alcoholic. If you were to serve an alcoholic a taste of wine you would no doubt cause them to stumble.
The few times I have taken the Lord’s Supper and used red wine, it has affected me in a more personal way. Red wine has a sharp taste and really slaps you in the face, a reality check, (an oxymoron) sobering. I think that is just the way God wants us to remember His Son going to the Cross for us. It was not sweet at all to God’s taste buds.