Pete Williamson
Puritan Board Freshman
For most of my life, I have been in churches that have practiced some form of open communion - in other words, there was very little said about who could or couldn't take communion, except for the admonition to search your hearts and confess your sins lest you take communion in an unworthy manner with all the attendant consequences.
As I continue along the path to the PCA, one area of struggle for me has been how to effectively fence the table. First, how do you do it? Is it something that the minister says from the front just prior? Are people somehow screened in advance or at the table when they come to receive? If so, what does that screening look like?
As I continue along the path to the PCA, one area of struggle for me has been how to effectively fence the table. First, how do you do it? Is it something that the minister says from the front just prior? Are people somehow screened in advance or at the table when they come to receive? If so, what does that screening look like?