
	Where results make sense

Topic: Open communion

Related Topics

Closed communion

List of Christian denominations

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Church of England

United Methodist Church

Divine grace

Eucharist

Lutheran church

Baptist

Baptism

Protestant

Transubstantiation

Consubstantiation

Confirmation

In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Open communion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Open communion is the opposite of closed communion, where the Eucharist is reserved for members of the particular church.
		Open communion is generally practiced in churches where the elements are passed through the congregation (also called self-communication).
		Those practicing open communion generally believe that the invitation to receive communion is an invitation to Christ's table, and that it is not the province of human beings to interfere between an individual and Christ.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_communion (460 words)

	Eucharist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ordinary ministers of Holy Communion are Bishops, Priests and Deacons, the latter traditionally ministering the chalice.
		The historical position of the Anglican Communion is found in the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1571, which state "the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ"; and likewise that "the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ" (Articles of Religion, Article XXVIII: Of the Lord's Supper).
		Many churches that practice open communion offer it only to baptized Christians (regardless of denomination), although this requirement is typically only enforced by the recipients' honesty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eucharist (4141 words)

	Who Can Take Communion in Christian Denominations -- Beliefnet.com
		Communion is open to members of a church that has entered into an "altar and pulpit fellowship" with the Missouri Synod.
		Communion is available to members of the Assyrian Church of the East, the Orthodox Churches, and the Polish National Church.
		The UCC is in communion with the Disciples of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Reformed Church in America, and has ecumenical partnerships with several denominations, including the Methodist, Anglican and Baptist churches.
	www.beliefnet.com /features/intercommunion (779 words)

	Reformed Presbyterians and Open Communion
		Close communion, in excluding from fellowship in the Church and in breaking of bread, does not deny a spiritual relationship to Christ; but open communion, in making regeneration the condition of fellowship, pronounces a very unwarrantable and uncharitable sentence on such as are excluded.
		Open communion is, in this aspect of it, better adapted to promote spiritual pride and carnal security than the "fear and trembling" of humble piety.
		Open communion leaves false impressions with regard to the importance of the truth of the Gospel.
	www.covenanter.org /Communion/opencommunion.htm (1575 words)

	Should communion be open or closed?
		The practice of "closed" communion to church members only seems to attempt to satisfy a desire to make sure someone doesn't partake in an "unworthy" manner, which they assume means they need to a true Christian.
		So, communion should be "open" to all believers, but those believers should examine their motive for partaking.
		If a believer is irreverent in their attitude toward communion because of prejudice or appetite, they should voluntarily refuse to partake, or, in some extreme cases, should be counseled by church leadership not to partake.
	www.gotquestions.org /communion-open-closed.html (387 words)

	Anglican Theological Review: Baptism, Eucharist, and the Hospitality of Jesus: On the Practice of "Open ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The opening of the eucharistic table to the unbaptized is a practice inspired by the radical hospitality of Jesus.
		Second, it should be stated clearly that the practice of open communion is a violation of the discipline of the Episcopal Church (Title I, Canon 17, section 7) to which clergy (who in most cases preside over the liturgies of local congregations) have vowed to be faithful.
		Clergy responsible for liturgical decisions who establish a practice of open communion might candidly ask themselves whether their practice represents acquiescence to the "seduction of relevancy"6 (difficult but important to avoid in parish ministry) or collusion with a disturbing trend toward de facto Congregationalism in Episcopal parishes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_200404/ai_n9345554 (1171 words)

	Jesus Christ, Our Great God & Savior - Closed Communion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, generally, closed communion is the practice of restricting the serving of the elements to those who are members of a particular church, denomination, or sect.
		That is, those churches practicing closed communion limit participation in the elements either to members of their own church, or members of their own denomination or group.
		In contrast, those who practice open communion allow all adult believers in and followers of Jesus, who are not living in known sin, to join in the elements of communion, even if they are members of another church, group, or denomination.
	www.truthsaves.org /articles/closed.shtml (417 words)

	Discover the Disciples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Today, among Disciples congregations, a communion table will be found in the sanctuary located in a prominent place, indicating the importance of the Lord's Supper in their worship.
		The time of communion within the Lord's Supper is a weekly occasion to let Christ lift the burden of guilt from our shoulders and to free us by his grace for a more loving existence.
		It is not surprising that it was a Disciples minister who initiated the annual observance of World Communion Sunday, the first Sunday in October, as an occasion each year when all Christians could sense their bonds of kinship about their separate tables.
	www.disciples.org /discover/communion.htm (2555 words)

	The Case for Close Communion
		The practice of close communion is commonly charged as being unreasonable, unsociable and bigoted.
		Hence, this scripture clearly establishes the principle that communion is not a service to be made open to the general public.
		Open communion is furthermore a violation of clear scriptural commandments that we are not to endorse or sanction heresies or those who promote them.
	www.pb.org /pbdocs/close_communion.html (2033 words)

	Pontifications » Blog Archive » Baptismal Apostasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An “open communion” or “open table” refers to the practice at St. Alban�s and at an increasing number of Episcopal churches of welcoming everyone–regardless of where they are on their faith journey–to share in our celebration of the Eucharist.
		Open Communion is a scandal that may in fact cause serious harm to those it seeks to include.
		Open communion sounds like perfect love, unconditional acceptance which is what we are all taught the Trinity is. Please show me in the New Testament where Jesus would agree or disagree with this.
	catholica.pontifications.net /?p=232 (4371 words)

	Thoughts About the Lord's Supper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Apparently Close Communion (sometimes called "Intercommunion") was the practice of most Baptist churches in the U.S. until the middle to late 1800s when James Robinson Graves and others convinced the majority of the churches and pastors that such practice was not consistent with their beliefs about the church.
		Open Communion is clearly out of the question just on that principle alone.
		Most of the people and groups advocating Open Communion are also very weak in their beliefs concerning baptism and other aspects of ecclesiology.
	www.bmaweb.net /AlphaO/papers/bryan_comm.htm (1668 words)

	Holy Communion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The proponents of closed communion feel otherwise, and it is the intent of this essay to outline the basic theological reasons for observing closed communion.
		Those who practice "open communion" state that no believer of any Christian persuasion should be excluded, because in their view Holy Communion is not a denominational table, but the Lord's table.
		A noted theological scholar once wrote: "Closed communion is made necessary by the fact that not all Christian groups today require strictly Christian standards, that is, some denominations definitely tolerate sub-Christian standards on the part of their members.
	www.blufftonyg.com /Literature/practices_series/communion.asp (1914 words)

	Communion (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some have complained about the scene in the psychiatrist's office being so bright, but I think it also helps get the message that there may be an outside presence surrounding all of us, whether we recognize it or not.
		"Communion" is an interesting movie that suffered from a view that was perhaps too short-sighted.
		If the film were made today, one can be sure the message might have been lost on overbloated special effects, and the surreal effect would've been diminished to appeal to the lowest common denominator of movie-going audiences.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0097100 (691 words)

	Welcome to The Anglican Communion Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		After opening speeches from students, the guest speakers were Richard Kirker (LGCM) and Gene Robinson (Bishop of New Hampshire) proposing and Andrew Goddard (Wycliffe Hall) and Colin Buchanan (former bishop of Woolwich) opposing.
		We believe we have made a significant contribution to the articulation of a Communion polity: a polity that is both fair to our global history and that also address the problems of finding a properly biblical discipline in this season of revision and threats to Communion life.
		...Opening remarks from the 2004 Colorado Springs Conference by the Rev'd Professor Christopher Seitz, President of ACI.
	www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org (974 words)

	St. Christopher's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church and Montessori School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Anyone who seeks to be baptized, or to have a child baptized, is welcome without regard to their church membership, their faith tradition or other factors.
		The practice of Open Baptism has been growing in the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida recently with the encouragement of the Rt.
		Open baptism is offered to remove any barriers and uncertainties and welcome these individuals and families without “strings”.
	www.stchriskb.org (428 words)

	[No title]
		A communion or joint participation in the benefits of Christ's death, is signified by the joint partaking of the outward elements.
		If a right participation of the communion were the appointed means of salvation, and if baptism were necessary in order to this right participation, it would be the highest manifestation of brotherly love, to maintain firmly the practice of strict communion.
		When an advocate of open communion excludes from the Lord's table an amiable neighbor, who does not give evidence of conversion, the exclusion is not regarded as a punishment.
	www.founders.org /library/dagg_vol2/ch5.html (8597 words)

	Letters from the Rector - April 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Open baptism – our willingness to baptize anyone without preconditions – is a topic I have discussed extensively.
		Open communion builds a bridge between the church and the unchurched.
		Open communion is the church saying to all people, the non-baptized included: “You are our special friends and we want you here.
	www.stbartschurch.org /letters/letapr02.html (966 words)

	Issues: Communion
		On the one hand the manual states that Adventists hold open communion, meaning that one need not be a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in order to take communion with us.
		On the other hand, the manual states that children must be baptized before taking communion demonstrating that, in fact, we do not hold open communion.
		One leading theologian in the church, a particularly good friend of children, points out that within the context of the statement about taking part unworthily, the Bible writer was talking about a lack of unity as being the cause of unworthiness.
	childmin.com /Issues/communion.htm (453 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tombes is the first English writer in favor of open communion and mixed membership and Jessey is the first to practice it in England.
		Whether it is lawful for any particular member to withdraw communion from the church in breaking of bread or any other ordinance for the scandal of one member whom he judges an offender but the church as it [ ?'is' for 'as it'] unsatisfied in the thing.
		For communion with forwardness and obstinacy in any evil is as well to be shunned in a congregation where it is offensive as in a particular person.
	elbourne.org /baptist/ofbl_docs/midlands.DOC (14669 words)

	The Skeptical Priest: Speed Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The idea that we would offer communion to anyone who seeks to be with God in Jesus strikes many church people as absolutely wrong, the contravention of 2,000 years of teaching and practice which insists that communion is a ritual practice that one is initiated into through baptism.
		By taking away baptism as the first step to communion you are undermining the signficance of baptism and the significance of communion too.
		Their arguments, based on thousands of years of practice and tradition and theory, are compelling, except when put up against the person of Jesus.
	skepticalpriest.blogspot.com /2005/01/speed-blog.html (549 words)

	communion movie review, alien abduction story.
		Communion focuses on the supposed phenomenon of Alien kidnapping of human beings.
		In this film for one man and his wife, and child they have always known "them." The chief character in the film is played by Christopher Walken.
		Communion is in many ways a sadisticly horrifying retelling of Alice in Wonderland albeit with an alien twist.
	www.movieprop.com /tvandmovie/reviews/communion.htm (526 words)

	News from Agape Press
		The committee is hoping to produce a document that accurately reflects the denomination's teaching and practice regarding communion.
		United Methodists have historically believed in "open communion." According to the denomination's news service, the Holy Communion Study Committee is looking to create a "centrist" document regarding the meaning and importance of the sacrament.
		Tooley adds that there are some in the denomination who would like to exploit the Methodist understanding of the Lord's Supper being open to all people, as a way to justify all behaviors and to promote the homosexual agenda.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/12/112002c.asp (303 words)

	New Covenant Church of God: FAQ 263. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At first sight this may be interpreted by other churches to mean that we are exclusivist and are secretly claiming to be a “one and only true church”.
		Someone who is partaking of the Lord’s Supper who has never made a public confession of faith and who has not obeyed the call to be baptised by immersion is ipso facto unworthy to partake of the emblems, and those who administer it are guilty of perverting the ordinance.
		Church communions which New Covenant Christians are largely happy to share are those of the Baptist and classical Pentecostal Churches, as well as a number of independent Evangelical Churches.
	www.nccg.org /FAQ263-Communion.html (480 words)

	Drell’s Descants » My Post to the HOBD listserv on Open Communion; Gen-Xers; Confirmation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Open Communion seems to circumvent the whole process.
		What needs to be done: a diocese should commit to maintaining closed communion, confirmation, etc. as essential parts of a program to evangelize Xers and Yers.
		The success of such a program might reverse sympathy for open communion et al, as the leading concern driving open communion seems to be the necessity of bringing in the younger generations.
	descant.classicalanglican.net /index.php?p=184 (1165 words)

	Anglican Communion Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Of course, now that the “horse is out of the barn”, we are getting reactions. Philip Turner, in his essay “ECUSA’s God” (anglicancommunioninstitute.org), has written that “’open communion for the non-baptized’ is far more than a cloud on the horizon within ECUSA.
		How do the advocates of Open Communion respond to this consistent Scriptural ordering of the Christian life? Although Tanner, as noted, insists that it is theoretically just as possible for individuals to come to value the Body — to be built up in it — subsequent to Eucharistic participation (i.e.
		In this section, the priority and requirement of Baptism before Eucharistic communion is explicitly articulated (“from the beginning Baptism was seen as the sacrament through which believers are incorporated into the Body of Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit” [19 Commentary]).
	www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org /articles/Open_Communion.htm (665 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)