THE HISTORY OF PAEDOCOMMUNION: FROM THE EARLY CHURCH UNTIL 1500 by Tommy Lee Why not let baptized infants and children back into the Lord's Supper This request is not nearly so strange once it is understood that infant observance of the Lord's Supper was widespread in the early church. 1 In 1975 Christian L. Keidel began his defense of the doctrine of paedocommunion with this question and ...

WHAT TAKING COMMUNION REALLY MEANS Taking communion before having experienced the new birth and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit within you makes you guilty of eating damnation to yourself. The communion in itself is not holy unless it is sanctified by prayer and the Bible says he that turneth away from hearing the law even his prayer is an abomination (Proverbs 28:9). All the law is ...

Why Paedocommunion is a Bad Idea Expanding a Blessing or Bringing down a Curse Gregory Johnson Covenant Theological Seminary 1997 (Greg Johnson graduated from Covenant summa cum laude in 1997, winning the school s Theology Award and Grant for Theological Studies that year) In an age in which Reformed evangelicals are habitually on the defensive over their adherence to paedobaptism (the ...