Respectfully, close or open communion is perhaps one of the most innocuous of the secondary or tertiary controversies in terms of long term concerns or implications. Not all secondary controversies promote more communion nor are the future implications of certain secondary/tertiary controversies without significant or serious potential threats to orthodox theology of orthopraxy.
Dear Rick: For close to two hundred years, the issue of open and closed communion was seen by many Baptists as being of utterly vital importance. It may seem innocuous to us, but it was not so to Spurgeon's contemporaries.
Respectfully, close or open communion is perhaps one of the most innocuous of the secondary or tertiary controversies in terms of long term concerns or implications. Not all secondary controversies promote more communion nor are the future implications of certain secondary/tertiary controversies without significant or serious potential threats to orthodox theology of orthopraxy.
Dear Rick: For close to two hundred years, the issue of open and closed communion was seen by many Baptists as being of utterly vital importance. It may seem innocuous to us, but it was not so to Spurgeon's contemporaries.
Let us learn from this…thank you again, Dr. Haykin, for these wonderful posts.