I think a good warning to those present before the supper is good. Perhaps if there are visitors and it's communion day, the elders or pastors might seek out the "visitors" to see if they are believer's...I don't know, though. I don't like the idea of a "closed" table.

Case in point: my wife and I moved to K-zoo over 2 years ago. The first church we visited had closed communion. They passed us by when it was time for participation...what they didn't pass us by with later on was the offering plate! I probably would respond differently than I did then: I laughed, shook my head and passed the plate back to the offering attendant (who also had helped pass out the elements)

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