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Open communion is the practice of some Protestant Churches of allowing members and non-members to receive the Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper). Many but not all churches that practice open communion require that the person receiving communion be a baptized Christian , and other requirements may apply as well.
In keeping with Wesleyan-Arminian theology, God's unconditional love makes the table of God's grace accessible to all, a concept referred to as open communion, though in certain Methodist connexions, the minister meets with the class meeting beforehand to examine those who wish to communicate (see Eucharistic discipline § Methodist practice).
Communion setting at an ELCA service: an open Bible, both unleavened bread and gluten-free wafers, a chalice of wine, and another with grape juice A congregation kneeling during the Eucharistic distribution. The manner of receiving the Eucharist differs throughout the world.
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Open communion was justified because Stoddard believed the sacrament was a "converting ordinance" that prepared people for conversion. [31] Stoddardeanism was an attempt to reach people with the gospel more effectively, but it did so, according to historian Mark Noll , by "abandoning the covenant as a unifying rationale".
The second scene shows the institution of the Eucharist, which may be shown as either the moment of the consecration of the bread and wine, with all still seated, or their distribution in the first Holy Communion, technically known in art history as the Communion of the Apostles (though in depictions set at the table the distinction is often ...
The Council of Trent, held 1545–1563 in reaction to the Protestant Reformation and initiating the Catholic Counter-Reformation, promulgated the view of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist as true, real, and substantial, and declared that, "by the consecration of the bread and of the wine, a conversion is made of the whole substance of the bread into the substance (substantia) of the body ...