Monday, January 15, 2018

Open Table

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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