Para ser recebido à mesa do Senhor... Mario Persona

To be received at the Lord's table and participate in the Lord's Supper, is it enough for a Christian to be pious? Or should the assembly first examine him to see if he is in sin? There are basically three types of sin: moral sin, doctrinal sin, and ecclesiastical sin. Since purity must be maintained in the assembly, when someone wishes to break bread at the "Lord's table," the assembly must take care not to bring into communion anyone who may be involved in evil; whether moral, doctrinal, or ecclesiastical. The local assembly should not have open communion, nor closed communion, but rather, supervised communion. The assembly should receive at the Lord's table every member of the body of Christ whom biblical discipline does not prohibit. Although every Christian has the privilege of being at the Lord's table, not every Christian necessarily has the right to be there, because this privilege can be confiscated for their involvement in some evil. ****** I am not a pastor, priest, or clergyman. I am not affiliated with any denomination or religious organization. I gather only in the name of the Lord outside the denominational system, without temples, leaders, priests, tithes, and similar things. The ideas here are not originally mine, but are the result of what I have learned from the Word of God outside denominational systems, gathering with brothers only in the name of the Lord without a temple, pastor, tithe, bands, etc., and also from reading authors from other eras who gathered in this way, such as J. G. Bellett, C. H. Brown, J. N. Darby, E. Dennett, W. W. Fereday, J. L. Harris, W. Kelly, C. H. Mackintosh, A. Miller, F. G. Patterson, A. J. Pollock, H. L. Rossier, H. Smith, C. Stanley, W. Trotter, G. V. Wigram, and many others. A list of them is available at this link: https://bibletruthpublishers.com/all-... Since its creation in 2014, I have chosen not to monetize the channel because I believe the gospel should be freely available. That's why my books about the gospel are also published with "zero" royalties, with the entire amount going to the publisher. But in April 2021, YouTube determined that ALL channels would receive advertising, having done so to promote its subscription service for ad-free videos. So I decided to monetize and revert the earnings to the work of the gospel. **************************************** If your comment was deleted or you were blocked from commenting on my channel, it was because you presented a contrary thought that, in my opinion, contradicts the Bible. Blocking is the tool I have to prevent the channel from becoming a debate forum. My channel was not created to promote and debate the many ideas of Christianity, but to present what I believe to be the truth. Anyone who believes differently should create their own channel and publish their own ideas, and I promise not to go there and argue. 2 Timothy 2:23 But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they produce quarrels.