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Important Virtual Communion Update

Important Virtual Communion Update

Virtual Communion Update - June 24, 2022 In 2020, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EPC made a temporary provision for communion to be administered virtually. At the EPC 41st General Assembly (2021), the Theology Committee was asked to study whether virtual communion should be continued. Over the past year, the Theology Committee studied the issue, and concluded: The consistent witness of Scripture, our constitution, and confessional standards is that the proper context for administering the Lord’s Supper is the physical gathering of God’s people, where the elements are given and received according to Christ’s command. The commissioners...
Malachi 3:6 ESV “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. Hebrews 13:8 ESV Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. While we praise God in the fact he does not change, we have to acknowledge a simple truth: we do. Our communities change, as does our culture. Humans in their fallen nature and in coming to greater levels of divine wisdom will change their tune if it seems advantageous. The same should be true in churches. However, we can get the unchanging word of God mixed up with the varying gifts and...