Intercommunion With Churches That Do Not Keep the Commandments

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 10.

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Intercommunion With Churches That Do Not Keep the Commandments

Intercommunion.

WE have been asked to decide between the members of a church who are divided in opinion as to whether it is allowable to partake of the communion with other churches, which do not keep the commandments. We feel compelled to answer in the negative, and that most decidedly. Let all be treated with kindness and Christian courtesy. No doubt there are good honest souls among them, and we should seek to reach them with the present truth and to teach them the way of God more perfectly. But we should have no hope to help them by communing with them. It is not the way to convince them that we have important truth which they need. It rather tends to make them satisfied with their present position. We must not forget our obligation to the message of warning which God has committed to us for the whole world. Read all of Rev. 14:6-12.