(ChurchLeaders) Francis Chan has believed that the communion was a symbol only for his whole life. In fact, he used to view anyone who believed in transubstantiation, or who saw the bread and the wine used for communion as more than just the bread and the wine, as “Catholic” and potentially “superstitious.” Chan said it struck him as “almost silly” and even “heretical” to take this view of communion. However, at the urging of his friends and fellow ministry leaders, Hank Hanegraaff and K.P. Yohannan, Chan says he decided to study early church history to discover what they believed about communion, or the Eucharist. While he admits he doesn’t “know where I land yet,” Chan is seeking to understand the incarnational view of the Eucharist that faith traditions such as the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches take.