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Closed Communion

President Matthew Harrison explains the practice of Closed Communion. This means that Communion in a Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS)  is reserved for members of that congregation or members of other LCMS congregations. While the practice of Closed Communion is the official practice of the LCMS, there are LCMS congregations that refrain from the discipline. The everlasting hope is that all congregations of the LCMS will engage in a unified practice.  

In my mind, the practice and reasons for it are similar to the Communion policies of the Orthodox and Roman Catholic communions. 

The article copied below may be found by clicking on the link. 

https://reporter.lcms.org/2024/close-closed-closed-communion-three-words-one-meaning/

Close, closed, close[d] Communion: Three words, one meaning


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