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Pilgrim said:
Lastly, you have never addressed my questions posed to you concerning the situation where a visitor to your church, who is a professing believer; a true believer in the Lord Christ, attempts to partake of the Lord's Supper. Would and you stop this person from doing so? And how would you stop him? Would you physically try to stop this person and/or physically remove him from the building? How far are you willing to go in such matters?

If an uninvited guest ignores the commands of the elders and wishes to commune himself by eating and drinking the consecrated elements by his own hand, I don't think he should be physically restrained.

We should not judge the spiritual condition of the uninvited guest. He may well be a true believer and he should be assumed to be so having given a credible profession of faith. However, that is not the criteria established by scripture for the stewards of the mystery (1 Cor. 11:18-20). As 2 Thes. 3:14-15 states, "if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother." The examination and the withholding of communion are signs of love and concern for our dear Christian brother.