Timmay
Puritan Board Freshman
If nursery workers and other volunteers are serving during corporate worship, but not actually participating in corporate worship, can they partake of the Lord's Supper, especially if they don't hear the Word preached, nor hear the words of institution?
For the sake of argument, there is only one service, and no other volunteers to take the current volunteers' place. Thus the workers would constantly miss out on the sacrament.Yes that issue should be addressed but I want to set it aside to get to the core of my question.
The PCA BCO ch 58 uses language of only administering to those who are "present", and those "in their seats." WCF 27.3, 29.3 say Word and Sacrament go together. Both seem to imply that those who can partake are only those in the same room or who are able to come into the same room that the minister is in. So I guess, do nursery workers count as those "present?"
If they are not "present" could an elder bring the elements to the workers, speak the words of institution, and then the nursery worker partakes, knowing that the nursery worker "has been approved by the Session" (BCO58-4b)?
For the sake of argument, there is only one service, and no other volunteers to take the current volunteers' place. Thus the workers would constantly miss out on the sacrament.Yes that issue should be addressed but I want to set it aside to get to the core of my question.
The PCA BCO ch 58 uses language of only administering to those who are "present", and those "in their seats." WCF 27.3, 29.3 say Word and Sacrament go together. Both seem to imply that those who can partake are only those in the same room or who are able to come into the same room that the minister is in. So I guess, do nursery workers count as those "present?"
If they are not "present" could an elder bring the elements to the workers, speak the words of institution, and then the nursery worker partakes, knowing that the nursery worker "has been approved by the Session" (BCO58-4b)?