So you have Martin and John. Where’s Abraham?

I call BS on that LCMS article on closed (or “close” which doesn’t make a nickel’s worth of sense) communion. So, let me understand this, if you take communion at a particular church (and we’ll get to what the church really is in just a moment) then you are saying you agree with every jot and tittle that church teaches? There has never been a church I’ve attended where I believed every thing that was taught there. I guess I was a liar when I partook of communion at these places.

Let me ask you (and this is addressed to no one in particular): when Jesus looks upon his church, what does he see? Does he see Lutherans, Calvinists, Baptists, Campbellites, Pentecostals, Methodists? No, he sees the CHURCH which is not restricted by any label attached to it by man. Therefore, if I’m at a Catholic church, and I don’t believe in transubstantiation, am I eating and drinking condemnation onto myself? Does God think that when I take communion there? I don’t think so.

Judge yourself. That’s the rule I have. In my church, anyone who professes Christ can partake of the Lord’s supper. Whatever significance or theology behind it is their business.