Our Table is open to all those who profess
Jesus Christ as Savior, who have been baptized in a Christian Church and are
not under church discipline. We call this an open table.
This represents a view that all who
partake of Jesus Christ are our brothers and sisters in Christ. I have been
making my way through some of the particular views of our CREC doctrine and
practice. But those doctrinal and practical views are not bounds of table fellowship.
Whomever Christ receives as a child of God, we embrace as a brother in Christ. We
leave it up to the Lord to sort out hearts.
We are seated in just a very small portion
of the Lord’s Table. It extends to all of our CREC Churches. We eat with them
today. It extends to all the churches around Lynchburg who believe on the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We eat with them today. It extends to the ends of the
earth, to those who embrace the Triune God of the Bible, Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. We eat with them today.
And the Lord’s Table has yet more room and
many more will come and when they do we are pleased to eat with them, every
one. Amen.
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