Re: Partaking of the Table
Bear with my analogy. Which is a drivers license.
Having a drivers license is not a right as voting, or US citizenship is , but a privilege. It's earned by passing the written and driving tests. Likewise through our salvation and baptism we earn the right & privilege to partake of the table. The right to drive can be taken away by blindness or by an offense. Likewise the right to take the table can be taken away because of a kind of sin as Mike had noted in 1 Corinthians.
The right to drive cannot be taken away because I don't like the way you drive. As for taking the table, Mike had noted "Excluding for lesser reasons is sectarian and casts a shadow over the very observance."
In regard to taking the table, our birthright has fulfilled the qualification by our salvation and baptism through Jesus Christ. Providing sin is not prohibitive, taking the table is a right and a privilege.
Terry
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