open communion
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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What draws congregations to City Temple is not chiefly its freedom from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching.
From Time Magazine Archive
To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Water is certainly a beautiful emblem of open communion," said one of the ladies.
From Bertha and Her Baptism by Nehemiah Adams
Redeemed, entrance of, into New Jerusalem, 646, 647. song of, 649-651, 665. triumph of, 650. home of, 674-678. hold open communion with God, 676, 677. education of, 677, 678.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White
"We believe in what is called open communion rather than in what is called close communion."
From Dorothy Page by Eldridge B. Hatcher
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