Got Communion? New Book Announcement: Be Bold Believe

And The Word Became Flesh and said, "I Am The Bread of Life" He said, "So Eat My Flesh and Drink My Blood and You will have Eternal Life and I will Raise you Up on the Last Day! And most turned away saying this saying is too hard.

In his classic Sermon 101 “The Duty of Constant Communion”, John Wesley describes 6 times why every Christian who call themselves Christian should have Communion at least 4 times per week but hopefully everyday. Then he goes on to deal with 21 Excuses that people use to avoid Communion.

This is the Subject of my New Book, a new contemporary language translation from the Old English and commentary on Sermon 101 in the light of CommunionFire™

I thought that, today of all days, would be the right time to announce a book that could renew all of Christianity, especially Protestants, Evangelicals and Charismatics into the most profound discovery of the 21st Century. 

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Corinthians 3:18

Here is a bit of the Preface from the new book and a sample of the subject from our commentary.

"Our approach is not to pretend to have the intellectual acumen of The Wesley Brothers or the ecclesiastical ‘know how’ to approach such a grand Sacramental dialog. 


All we have is a blind expedition to various ports of call over the past two years from having Communion daily. We also bring into this commentary, not a debate on the topic, just our personal, one-on-one observations in our daily encounters with The Lord who is The Spirit.

We have called this additional experience in Communion “The Miracle of CommunionFire!”

 So we have no agenda here except to applaud our Dear Brother in Christ. John Wesley, for raising the standard on the much needed message of Constant Communion! We say, Amen! With this new contemporary translation and the CommunionFire Commentary we hope you will hear what Rev. John Wesley was saying in his generation as a timeless message that ought to be a part of every Christian generation until Jesus returns. It is certainly the most needed message to the Church since the days of John Wesley and the days of the early Church,

We have done this commentary because we found John Wesley to be, like us, a radical 'Comm-union-ist'!  

A "Communionist" (please sound it out and say it correctly) understands that the vitality of the Church, each believer’s witness and Christian faith is Communion-Centric. 

The Lord provides the gift of Communion as the most powerful component in having an ongoing, personal, one-on-one, intimate, first-hand relationship with Him. 

"Communion" is understood in the Orthodox Church also as the "Qurbana" and in the Roman Catholic Church as the "Eucharist" and in some of over 3,000 other denominations as "The Lord's Supper"! 

Wesley also introduces the term "The Communication" and asks those of His day and we ask with Him to believers today, "Are you Communicating?" or 'having Communion'? "If so, how often? The Lord Jesus intends that it be at least 4 times per week and as often as possible every day. For doesn't the Lord himself teach us to pray, "Give us today our day-to-day bread?" " 

A Sample Announcing Our New Book
Be Bold Believe
Re-Introducing
"The Duty of Constant Communion"
From A New Translation from the Old English Into Contemporary Language of The Classic 
'Sermon 101' 
by John Wesley

For the purposes of CommunionFire, my commentary is only in italics. What is not italic is John Wesley speaking. 

From the "Collins English Thesaurus" Dictionary Publishing since 1819
Duty: noun =  responsibility, calling, service, charge, 
mission, obligation, assignment 

From John Wesley, Duty: = Command of Christ as in "Do This to Remember Me".

From CommunionFire, Duty = "Christ's invitation, born upon us and prompted by God's passionate and personal love, that makes our heart pound with desire to respond, as though if request that commands our heart"

Wesley Begins:

“The following discourse was written more than 55 years ago (1733), for the use of my pupils at Oxford. 

I have added very little, but edited much; as I used more words then than I do now. But, I thank God; I have not yet seen any cause to alter my sentiments in any point which is presented here. 1788 J.W.”

"Do this in remembrance of me." Luke 22:19.

We must keep asking the Lord, the scriptures, one another and those who have actually practiced Constant Communion, what is the meaning  when Jesus says, ‘Do this in remembrance’? This was also the starting point for Camille and I in the Fall of 2012.
We are still asking that question and finding more answers to it every day!

Wesley Continues:

“It is no wonder that those who have no fear of God should ever think of doing this. 

But it is strange that it should be neglected by any that do fear God, and desire to save their souls; And yet nothing is more common.

One reason why many neglect it is, they are afraid of "eating and drinking unworthily," yet they never think how much greater the danger is when they do not eat or drink it at all.

That I may do what I can to bring these well-meaning people to a more just way of thinking, I shall:

Section One: 
Show that it is the duty of every Christian to receive the Lord's Supper as often as he can; 
(There are Six Subjects Wesley uses as His determined message to every believer to participate in full faith with ‘Constant Communion”)

Section Two
Answer some objections.
(There are 22 Objections Answered in this section.)

Begin: Section One
The Duty of Every Christian to Receive the Lord's Supper As Often As They Can

1. The First Reason why it is the duty of every Christian “to do this”, is because:

It is a plain command of Christ.

This is His command and appears from the words of the text, "Do this in remembrance of me" 

Just as the Apostles were obliged to bless, break, and give the bread to all that joined with them in holy things; so were all Christians obliged to receive the sign of Christ's Body and Blood.

The Bread and Wine are commanded to be received, in remembrance of His death, to the end of the world. 

Observe, too, that this command was given by our Lord when He was just laying down his life for our sake. They are, therefore, His dying words to all his followers.”

Commentary One

In CommunionFire we see everything in Jesus earthly ministry, in fact all of the Old testament Scripture leading up to His Miraculous Birth leads to this singular event! It is this final night when He demonstrates “the changing of the guard” from the Old Covenant Meal of Passover to the New Covenant Meal of His Body and Blood!

It is the focal point of everything He said and did in public ministry for three and a half years. He lived out the meaning of His name before "Jesus". It was and is “The Word of God" become Flesh.  

From the foot-washing (John 13) to His final key note message regarding the coming of the Holy Spirit and Jesus’ Communion Prayer to empower the ongoing productivity of Communion, Jesus was establishing the cornerstone from which He would 'build His Church!" It is how the Church would discover that they are living stones and a bride that is preparing for her Eternal Groom. This meal would be the key to unlocking the reality of the Kingdom of God in men's hearts and before mankind. (John 14-17) 

It was at that moment The Word made Flesh said Take and eat My Flesh, Take and Drink My Blood so that you may have My eternal life in you, a heart that pumps with His promise that He would raise us up in the last day. He also said, "If you don't, you have no life in you." 

The only element they needed to mix into  this new meal was a heart and a mouth that says, "Yes!" He even gives us the grain of faith the size of a mustard seed to respond to Him when He invites us.

When He offers us His meal of eternal life and asks, "Believe?" That is:"This is My Body broken for you and my Blood shed for you? For My Flesh is real food and My Blood is real drink." At that point, when Jesus preached His Sermon 101 at the Temple in Capernaum, most turned away saying this saying is too hard for us. Many have done the same in John Wesley's Day and in the Church today. (See John 6)

He was, in effect, giving the greatest Seminar in the History of Creation. It is about the centrality of The Communion Table to our faith, life and god's plan. It is the "how" in how Jesus says He will build His Church and why the gates of hell cannot and must not prevail against it. 

It is there, at His Table by the meal He provides that He reveals His Testimony as a first-hand, personal witness (one-on-one) to each believer seated together with Him in His presence through the blessing of the meal He died to provide us. .

A believing Church is, at its best, when each individual is in daily Communion with the Lord Jesus. It is there the church finds its very identity in Christ and life. Without it there is no life and we are only playing church. These are the instructions of Jesus’ not mine or John Wesley

Jesus invites you to "Do This". 

Got Communion? Today would be 
a great day to get started!

Communion ushers us into His Glory. It is His presence.
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When you do as Jesus asked, be still after you eat the Body. Look for His image to appear or to sense the blanket of His presence around you and/or in you. he can't wait to share His love and life with you in a way you will know it is Him and that it is His reality He is revealing to you.

When you Drink the wine of His Blood, be very quiet and let His message fall upon you. He will speak to you personally and share His Word made Flesh carried in the voice of His own Blood. It may be a whisper, a verse of scripture or some other way where you will know it is Him and no other. 

When this happens, Paul tells us, in His glory we are transformed from glory to glory. The transformation happens to you and you may not even be aware of it... immediately... but you will become aware of His presence in your life more and more - as often as you "Do This To Remember Him." 

Otherwise, you may forget Him as the fire of your faith like a live coal. You feed on and drink in His eternal life as The Word made Flesh. His name is Jesus who leads each one of us to His Table to have Communion with Him, forever!