Covenantal Communion
While weekly Covenant Communion has a long, rich, historical
precedent in the Church since earliest times, it is largely ignored
and ridiculed today. But this is a beautiful and powerful practice!
We believe that all baptized members of God's covenant who are able
to eat and drink are to be freely invited to their Lord's Table to
dine with Him and His people. This applies to adults as well as
young children. As our Covenant Children are baptized into the
church we joyfully receive them at the Lord's Table to dine with
their Lord and King – Jesus Christ. Allowing children from a young
age to receive the grace and blessing of the Lord's Supper is to
communicate to them at an early age that they are indeed part of
God's covenant people. To bar them from the table is to intrinsically
put a spiritual barrier between them and Christ – an unneeded,
unBiblical, and potentially spiritually destructive barrier. Jesus
told Peter both to “Feed my sheep” and also to “Feed my lambs”
(cf. John 21). Jesus tells his disciples to “let the little
children come unto me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the
kingdom of heaven.” (Matt 19:21) Jesus says that if one is not
converted to become like a little child, he can in no wise enter the
kingdom of heaven (Matt 18:3). We want to encourage the simple faith
that God has given our children, not cause them to doubt God's love
for them.
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