Friday, December 02, 2011

Banned From The Lord's Table

Arthur Sido writes about the phone call he received from his church informing him that his family isn't allowed to commune with God.  What is also interesting is that one of the commenters doesn't see a problem with equating the Sido's family situation with gross imorality.  Let's call the fruit of man-made "formal church membership" doctrines what it is: rotten.
Posted by Steve Scott at 12:03 PM
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  1. Jason Nota12/18/11, 5:05 PM

    I started to attend the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on May 8th of this year. I was not allowed to receive Communion till July 17th. This was after completing lesson 6 of our adult Confirmation class concerning the beliefs of the LCMS on Communion.

    Here is what the LCMS believe, from a church document. "In its 1999 report on Admission to the Lord's Supper the Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) explains on the basis of the Scriptures that admission to the Lord's Supper has a vertical dimension (relationship of the communicant and the Lord) and a horizontal dimension (relationship between and among communicants). Admission to the Sacrament involves not only worthy reception of the individual (vertical dimension), but also a profession of unity in confession (horizontal). Thus the Synod stated in 1986 that, in keeping with the principle of Christian love: "The practice of close communion seeks to prevent both harmful reception of the Sacrament as a profession of unity in confession in faith where this unity does not exist" (1986 RES, 3-08).

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  2. Jason Nota12/18/11, 5:12 PM

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  3. Jason Nota12/18/11, 5:22 PM

    Correction: The last part should read, "The practice of close communion seeks to prevent both harmful reception of the Sacrament as well as a profession of unity in confession in faith where this unity does not exist."

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