Who Can Take the Lord’s Supper?: Understanding Close Communion (with Dallas Vandiver)

Church Theology

Who ought to be allowed to partake of the Lord's Supper? Maybe this question has never occurred to you, or you've always assumed the answer was obvious! Well, in this episode, Dr. Dallas Vandiver joins me to talk about a historic position known as 'close communion,' that the Lord's Supper ought to be reserved for baptized members in good standing of a gospel-believing church.

Dallas Vandiver's book, Who Can Take the Lord's Supper?: A Biblical-Theological Argument for Close Communion.

Dallas Vandiver's shorter article summarizing the arguments of the book: Who Can Take the Lord's Supper?