Welcoming all to the Table as Sentinels in keeping with our practice of Open Communion is one of three practices by which we Govern from the Table, the other two being making consensus decisions in the Council of the Lord as Friends of God and creating wealth, tithing and giving offerings as Stewards.
Welcoming all to the Table in Open Communion is a priestly practice of being Sentinels.
At the Table we guard the covenantal boundaries that distinguish the Fallen World System from the Kingdom of God, welcoming all who are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, who are not lawfully excommunicated and who hold that by faith we are encountered by the real presence of Christus Victor in the Eucharist. All who desire to come to the Table but who are not yet baptized, we bless in our Eucharistic assemblies. They are invited to become catechumens and enter into a period of preparation for baptism and chrismation.
