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Irishcat922 · #16 (**permalink**) 06-22-2004, 10:46 AM

WLC Q-173. May any who profess the faith, and desire to come to the Lord's supper, be kept from it?
A-173. Such as are found to be ignorant or scandalous, notwithstanding their profession of the faith, and desire to come to the Lord's supper, may and ought to be kept from that sacrament, by the power which Christ hath left in his church,(1) until they receive instruction, and manifest their reformation.(2)

Scripture Proof (1)
EAV 1Co 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
EAV 1Co 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
EAV 1Co 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation1 to himself, not discerning2 the Lord's body.
EAV 1Co 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.1
EAV 1Co 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
EAV Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend1 you.
EAV 1Co 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
EAV 1Co 5:2 And ye are puffed up,1 and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
EAV 1Co 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged1 already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
EAV 1Co 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
EAV 1Co 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
EAV 1Co 5:6 Your glorying1 is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
EAV 1Co 5:7 Purge1 out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed2 for us:
EAV 1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
EAV 1Co 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company1 with fornicators:
EAV 1Co 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
EAV 1Co 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.1
EAV 1Co 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
EAV 1Co 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
EAV 1Ti 5:22 Lay hands1 suddenly on no man, neither be partaker2 of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

Scripture Proof (2)
EAV 2Co 2:7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up1 with overmuch sorrow.

In my opinion I think it would be very difficult to judge exactly where a person may be in thier relationship with Christ just walking in off the street. I think it is important that the Elders be able to, in the very least, talk to the person. Ideally though, I think they should be members if they want to participate in the Sacrament.:wr50: