Closed Communion Explained
Often, people are offended at the Church's practice of Closed Communion. It may be that they have never heard of it before. They may have limited experience with congregations and pastors who did not practice it. The resources below are provided to help explain the Church's practice of Closed Communion.
Click here to download a Power Point Presentation from the Nov. 30 session of People Are Strange, a study conducted at Good Shepherd to help people better understand the Church's liturgy and life around God's Word and Sacraments. You will only be able to view this file if you have Power Point on your computer. To view, simply download the file. Open it and view it as a slide show without making any mouse clicks. Mouse clicks will interupt the slide timing and halt automatic progression of slides, though the audio will continue to play. If you interupt the slide timing, you may still advance slides manually as the audio plays. Please note that there are two short video clips on one slide. They will need to be manually clicked in order to view. You may do this outside of the slide show to avoid audio overlap between the video clip's audio and the audio of the class presentation as recorded by Pastor's microphone.
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