PRACTICES

ORDNUNG

Faith & Practice of Grapevine Home Fellowship

 Guests

Members may bring non-believers as guests for which the host member is responsible. Before inviting guests, members are encouraged to share our Statement of Faith and Ordnung with them and to present an overview of how our gatherings will generally run. The host should expect to introduce their guest to the assembly. An Elder should be notified in advance if a non-believer will be attending.

 Communion

 Our assembly observes “Close” Communion as part of a full meal. This means that all professing believers, whether visitors or not, may participate in the sacrament. Because Communion is the sign of the New Covenant arrangement between God and mankind, those who do not confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, including the young children of believing parents are excluded. Matt 26:17-30; Mark 14:12-26; Luke 22:7-20;

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The Ordnung of the Grapevine Home Fellowship may be downloaded here as a Word document.