Weekly Communion?

Ray Van Neste offers Three Arguments for Weekly Communion:

• First, I think there is strong evidence of a pattern of weekly observance in the New Testament. 
• Second, in practical terms, in our man-centered age where so many services are shamefully devoid of any meaningful reference to the cross, could we not benefit from a move to a regular use of the Christ-ordained means for reminding us of the cross?
• Last, communion at the close of each service has a way of tying the service to the gospel.

[See also Van Neste's article "Reinvigorating Baptist Practice of the Ordinances"].

While not dealing with the issue of weekly communion, this reminder by Douglas Wilson to Let the Word Apply It to the Wound is important to keep it from becoming mere ritual:

The Word that accompanies the sacrament here is a Word that should be spoken to the occasion, to the circumstance. The bread and wine are constant; we have no authority to substitute other elements. We have no authority to adjust the sacrament itself.

But do we speak words of warning or words of comfort? Do we fence the Table, keeping some away, or do we seek to gather up the reluctant?

This depends entirely on whether we are observing the service in Thyatira, or Pergamum, or Ephesus, or Laodicea. The Word is what applies the sacramental service as it ought to be applied. To simply go through motions involving bread and wine is to invite a covenantal disaster. This is a meal with our Lord; it is not a liturgical drill.