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Originally Posted by willravel
LCMS (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) is known for being eleitist and conservative. The Lord's Supper thing is only the tip of the iceburg.
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I've never known my syond to be that way.
An explanation as to why we do not practice "open table" from the LCMS website:
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"In accordance with the confessional nature of participation in the Lord's supper, and in agreement with Lutheranism's historic position, it is inappropriate to attend the Lord's Supper at non-Lutheran altars. Since participation in Holy Communion, Scripturally and confessionally understood, entails agreement in the Gospel and all its articles, it would not be appropriate to attend the Lord's supper in a church with which such agreement is not shared."
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Basically, we belive that partaking of communion indicates that you agree with the all of teachings of that church. Since there are differences between synods and their teachings, we do not allow others to participate in our communion nor do we allow our members to take communion in the churches of other synods.
This is not because we think we are better, this
is because we want to preserve the sanctity of the act of communion.