Since nobody asked, here are my quick thoughts on why we won't have online communion:
Some aspects of worship can be accomplished online. We can hear God's word and be encouraged and inspired by the places it touches our lives. We can be led in prayer and singing.

We can greet and welcome one another through live feeds and streaming comments. We can invite people to worship by sharing streams and feeds. We can sacrifice and give financially to support our churches and practice the spiritual discipline of generosity by giving online.

One thing that I find impossible to replicate online is the sacrament of Eucharist. Communion is more than bread and juice. It is more than a carb and a drink. It is more than the words of institution spoken over the elements. It is more than the words of confession and pardon.

Communion is the gathering of the people to celebrate these things. Communion is at its most powerful when we hand one another the bread and say 'This is the body of Christ broken for you. This is the blood of Christ shed for you.'

More than anything we do, there is a physical requirement to grasp the practice. The body and the blood are not something we scrounge together. The body and the blood are not something we've purchased for ourselves. The body and the blood are given to us.

That's why we receive communion. We don't take it. We receive it. We don't prepare the table for ourselves. It isn't a practice of bringing what we have and consuming what only we brought. It is a practice of bringing what we have and receiving from Christ AND the gathered body

If you and your church practice online communion, I have no judgment against that. That's not what this thread is. More power to you. I pray that the Holy Spirit moves miraculously for you and your people. For our church, we're going to try practicing longing. We're in exile.

The songs of lament longed for the restoration and return from exile. So, we will practice longing for the bread and the cup together. It's ok to miss something. It's ok, as a pastor, to let your people feel sadness during this season. Our job is not to manage people's anxieties

Instead, we continuously point to Jesus and the work he is accomplishing in the midst of our exile. We continually point to the hope and the promise that is ours. We continue to model what it means to live in our day while longing for Christ's new day.