In the early part of his independent career, while studying the New Testament in order to confute the Baptists, he became a Baptist himself, and advocated their views with the exception of close communion.
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Imbued with the German ( and Canadian ) love of the outdoors, he has sought personal and professional regeneration through living a simple life, in close communion with nature, far from the bright lights.
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Her work " Sleeping " was reviewed by a local paper as " certainly one of the best items in the show, with a close communion of the body with the earth . " Curran died in 1976.
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Open communion is the opposite of closed communion, where the sacrament is reserved for members of the particular church or others with which it is in a relationship of full communion or fellowship, or has otherwise recognized for that purpose.
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The name " Strict " represented the position that the churches had on a strict or closed communion ( also known at the Lord's Table ), whereby the churches required all those taking part in this ordinance to be baptised by immersion.
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For example, a Southern Baptist congregation practicing close communion might allow a member of another Southern Baptist congregation to participate, on the premise that both congregations are of the " same faith and practice " as they are both in the same denomination.
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Other divergences include the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement's positions on divorce and remarriage, closed communion, the sealing work of Revelation 7 ( the SDARM holding to a pre-1914 view of its literal and number-limited nature ), and the remnant church of Revelation 12 : 17.
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"The holy one that sheds such light is not and cannot be God, but there is no doubt that he is one with God ( this is in accordance with John 10 : 30 of the Bible where Jesus stated'I and the Father are one') and his soul is in constant and close communion with God.
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ), the largest Lutheran Church in America, however, does not practice closed communion, but rather " eucharistic hospitality . " In terms of guests receiving the Sacrament, according to this practice, the burden of decision of admittance to the Sacrament is not on the host congregation, but on its guests.
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In addition to the article closed communion, we also have open communion, which says " Most Protestant Christian churches practice open communion . ", and which also says " Closed communion may refer to either a particular denomination or an individual congregation serving Communion only to its own members . " talk ) 15 : 17, 5 February 2013 ( UTC)
