Limiting the Supper – Are We Making Too Much of It?
The question of who may partake in the Lord’s supper is just as important as who ought to be baptized and how it should be done.
baptist distinctives
Limiting the Supper – Objections
Since it is the Lord’s table, we do not have a say in who may partake. Jesus left instructions in the New Testament; it is these we must follow and not our own opinions, no matter how wise or reasonable they may seem.
Who May Take the Supper?
It seems reasonable to infer that there may be consistent intercommunion between those churches whose doctrine and order so agree that membership in the one church may justly entitle an individual to membership in the others; but between such churches only.
Why Baptist?
While Baptists believe that theirs is the type of church which most closely and consistently follows the Scripture’s teaching, we do not kick all non-Baptists out of the family of God.
Biblical Separation
Civil authorities have the right to compel obedience to a set of laws, and to enforce penalties for refusing to submit to those laws, but they have no power to make you believe in the moral rightness of those laws.