Any of you feel unworthy of communion this Lenten season?   When it is offered, come running….and do it as often as you can.

Two of the most frequent questions that I am asked in membership class’s deals with our view of communion as United Methodists.

What is the frequency and what is the availability of communion?

How often do you do it and who can receive it?

To both of these questions we United Methodist swing the door open wider than most any other church.  Our Open Table means it is available to all who have repentant hearts and desire more of God’s Grace in Christ,  and we put no limits on frequency.

Our tradition has a bias toward making the Lord’s Supper as accessible as possible.  (It is interesting to me as a Pastor that the only point where we Methodist seem to restrict this liberal accessibility to Communion is in our internal debates on who can bless it, but I’ll leave that important debate to for another time).

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