Six o'clock on Sunday morning, around the loaf.
The Lord's Supper is early and it is the week's centre; nobody presides, brothers minister as led, and the same pattern runs in every meeting room in the world. Meetings fill most other evenings, so that the fellowship is the calendar as well as the community.
The Lord's Supper on Sunday morning, held very early, follows the Brethren form: a company seated around a table bearing a loaf and a cup, with no presiding minister and no order of service, and brothers giving out hymns, praying and ministering as they are moved. What distinguishes the PBCC from the Open Brethren is the boundary rather than the form — only members in fellowship break bread, and reception or exclusion in one meeting is binding on every other worldwide. Meetings occupy most evenings of the week: readings, prayer meetings, and gatherings at which the current worldwide ministry is read. Larger occasions bring thousands together, and the fellowship builds substantial purpose-made halls for them. The meeting rooms themselves are deliberately unmarked from the street.
The same ground, other faiths
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