Self Service

A friend of mine went to an Anglican church in a rural part of Oxfordshire a couple of weeks ago for a weekday evening communion service. In her words, 'they put the chairs in a circle with the table in the middle and said "to help yourselves or if you feel moved give it to someone else"'. She was indeed moved, in fact all the way out of the door and home. I suppose this may have been 'holy communion by extension', but even so ... It's not the circle of chairs with the central table, or informal atmosphere, as even I've done that occasionally. It's the complete disintegration of any communal sense of what the Church is, both contemporaneously and across time, and robbing God of any initiative in the process. Help yourselves? If you feel moved? Are we the motor of the eucharist, or is God?