tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post6824435372443018732..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: Inbox: Policing the TableDr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-38225116937774246932017-10-10T09:45:02.624-04:002017-10-10T09:45:02.624-04:00Always happy to be on the same page, Jeff.Always happy to be on the same page, Jeff.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346761712248157930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-78592891207979205412017-10-10T09:22:35.076-04:002017-10-10T09:22:35.076-04:00Thanks for answering this question! I couldn't...Thanks for answering this question! I couldn't agree more.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06678417741092167175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-78230362639386831212017-09-30T10:08:02.885-04:002017-09-30T10:08:02.885-04:00Agreed. And the key verse about this says, "...Agreed. And the key verse about this says, "For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself." (1 Cor. 11:29). Now, we note it does not say, "he eats and drinks judgment upon the local church," or "he eats and drinks judgment on the elders." <br /><br />It's on HIMSELF.<br /><br />I think that makes it pretty clear who has the issue if a person comes to the Lord's Table casually, or in wrong motives or condition. It's on his own head, not on anybody else's. Period. Full stop.<br /><br />And though we might, in well-meaning folly, imagine we ought to protect other people from making such a serious mistake, we are not instructed to do so in Scripture. Worse still, doing so would require us, or the elders, to imagine we know a man's heart...which we cannot know without decisive outward evidence, and even then not precisely. <br /><br />Moreover, while I hear people say how awful it would be to approach the table unworthily and to incur condemnation, I hear very little said about the sin of arbitrarily barring a genuine Christian from his or her rightful participation. <br /><br />Are we so sure that erring on the side of refusing people is any better than the thing we are trying to prevent?<br /><br />I think we're best to let the responsibility rest where the Lord Himself has put it -- with the one who approaches the table, and not to arrogate to ourselves the right to police the table.Immanuel Canhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11580529966007662214noreply@blogger.com