Mailbag: Communion Alone? Living in Light of the Resurrection? Do I Have to Join a Church, and more!
Curiously Kaitlyn
Phil Vischer
4.9 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It's a mailbag episode, and Kaitlyn is taking on a wide range of listener questions about church, communion, and Christian formation. Is it okay to take the Lord's Supper by yourself at home if your church only celebrates it once a month? What does it actually mean to "live in light of the resurrection"? And how much theological training should pastors and ministry leaders have before stepping into leadership? Plus, Kaitlyn and Mike wrestle honestly with what to do when every church near you feels too casual, too shallow, or just not what you hoped for.
0:00 - Theme Song
1:33 - Can You Do the Lord's Supper Alone/
11:21 - Living in Light of the Resurrection?
17:22 - Importance of Being "Theologically-Trained"
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26:20 - When Do You Leave a Church?
41:23 - End Credits
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:05.2 | That doesn't make any sense. |
| 0:10.2 | Curiously, Kate, yeah. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome back to another Curiously, Caitlin. |
| 0:17.5 | I am joined once again by producer Mike. |
| 0:19.7 | Mike, how are you today? |
| 0:21.3 | Caitlin, have you ever been surprised by a pop quiz that you're like, oh, I didn't prepare for this? |
| 0:26.9 | I have nightmares about that to this day. I don't know what feeling describes that, but I realized right before we hit record, I was like, I did not think about. |
| 0:34.6 | Nauseous? Not nauseous, just unprepared unprepared unprepared not for the recording but for |
| 0:40.3 | how i'm feeling because i don't i didn't i didn't i didn't know yeah i don't know so yeah that's that's how |
| 0:45.1 | i'm feeling today that's great unprepared that's what everyone wants to hear when they tune into a podcast |
| 0:49.9 | you should listen to us and trust fortunately they're not here for me kately they're here for you because you are, you're like our Sunday school teacher. We'll see. You're just kind of teaching us all along the way. But we have something special in store for our listeners today because rather than just focusing on one question, we're going to get to several. We're doing a mailbag edition of Curisa Caitlin. I'm |
| 1:12.0 | excited. Are you excited? Rapid fire. I mean, not quite rapid fire, but we're going to do these |
| 1:15.7 | quicker than we would do a full episode. Yeah. And it's definitely because this was well thought out |
| 1:20.6 | and not because you moved in the last week and things are a little busy for you and you're probably |
| 1:24.9 | planning a wedding and writing a book and |
| 1:28.2 | no we've planned for months that this day may 27th would be mailbag day exactly so here is today's |
| 1:34.7 | first question from becky is it okay to do the lord's supper by yourself at home my mega church |
| 1:42.0 | only does it once a month and no one else in my family would want to do it |
| 1:45.8 | with me. Oh, okay. First of all, I just have to say, Becky, I'm so sorry. That's really sad. |
| 1:52.8 | My fiance and I actually, but we're talking about this recently about how both of us were for |
| 1:57.0 | many years of our life in churches where we did communion quite rarely, you know, once a month |
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