Celebrating Communion

A handbook for elders authorised to lead communion services within the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

Reprinted and revised 2001

Compiled by Stuart Lange for the Special Committee on Lay Administration on Lay Administration of the Sacraments, Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Matters of order
• Chapter 2: The history and theology of the Lord's Supper
• Chapter 3: The structure and content of Communion services
• Chapter 4: Some sample Communion orders
• Chapter 5: Other orders and resources
• Chapter 6: Some guidelines for those planning Presbytery training events in the leading of Communion
• Chapter 7: A prayer of commissioning
• Appendix