Aleksey Fomichenko’s Reviews > The Case for Covenant Communion > Status Update

If believers' children are full members of the kingdom of heaven, and objects of Christ's self-giving love, who can deny that they are included in His body, the church? Such a denial, surely, would be thoroughly implausible.

The practice of teaching our littlest children to say "Our Father…,” but requiring them to wait years to eat the Savior's body and blood, is a practice requiring an explanation clearer and more directly related to the actual statements of the Bible than has ever been provided.

We speak English to our children before they know English, and it is not a fruitless waste of time. That is how they become native speakers. In the same way, we are "speaking grace" to our children by including them in the Supper. And what impact does it have to speak grace to children so early? We do it so they might become native speakers of that same grace.

The Lord's Supper is a corporate event, not an individual event. Instead of dimming the lights and bowing their heads and closing their eyes, the believers should be looking around the sanctuary, loving and discerning the body… This is not to diminish the importance of confession of sin. It is an important part of Christian worship. But you wipe your feet at the door when you first come in.

Who are those who are genuinely guilty of not “discerning the Lord’s body”? Are they the little baptized children of the church who have not yet attained intellectual maturity, or are they those who bar such children from the table? Who really is guilty of sinning against the “body of Christ”?...