Yes, that has been a long standing feature of Baptist practice. Quite early on, centuries ago, a pietistic group of Christians separated from the Church of England to become the foundation of Baptists as we know them, and they adopted complete abstinence from drinking alcohol as a church policy. Anyhow that’s an apparent answer to the Salvation Army communion question. Currently they are permissive towards members going to other churches to get communion. So the gap gets bridged in that manner. I know they told me there was no problem going to a Baptist church for it.
The importance of communion is that it symbolizes the way that Christians imbibe and ingest the Holy Spirit in a spiritual sense. To omit that is to omit a significant witness. Roman Catholics read even more into it, but I’m not going there. At any rate, Christians DO imbibe and ingest the Holy Spirit, both in communion observations and outside of them.
Wow.
I don’t know of alcoholism so I don’t know that a sip can send you back down to hell.
How sad. I feel for them.
I guess the equivalent non religious example would be me buying a one dollar scratch off and ending up in Atlantic City losing the mortgage money.
I DID lose rent money once upon a time when i was younger.
On more than one occasion.
It ended quite a few years before first house.
It had to be God listening to my mom, because I didn’t pray over it and she did.
I JUST LOST INTEREST one day, and I had a bad habit.
I KNOW it was God, I just don’t know why he did me the favor of letting it leave my body when I wasn’t very religions or spiritual at the time.
That helped.
My Baptist coworkers insist that Jesus turned water into grape juice at Cana, never mind what the chief steward said to the groom about wasting the best wine on guests who were already snockered.