Do you need to be baptised to take Holy Communion?

Question

Protestant.

Pentecostal.

Answer 1

I believe so, yes- but im not 100% sure

Answer 2

I don't know about Protestant rules, but for Roman Catholicism you have to be baptized first before you can take part in most of the rituals of the Church - Holy Communion included.

Answer 3

Yes. If you are Protestant why would you take Communion?

Answer 4

It will vary from place to place. Each denomination has their own rules, which often bear no relationship to Scripture, or common sense. In the Seventh day Adventist "church" - No. Neither in the United Church of Christ Congregational. Those are the only two I have held membership in in the past.

Answer 5

Realistically, if you take communion without being Baptized, no one is going to know. It's not like people carry around Baptismal certificates.

Answer 6

Yes and this is a teaching that goes back to the earliest days of the Chuch.



Justin Martyr was the greatest apologist of the Church who lived in the second century.

St. Justin Martyr: First Apology

And this food is called among us Εὐχαριστία [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined.

For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.

For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels, have thus delivered unto us what was enjoined upon them; that Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, said, "This do in remembrance of Me, Luke 22:19 this is My body;" and that, after the same manner, having taken the cup and given thanks, He said, "This is My blood;" and gave it to them alone. Which the wicked devils have imitated in the mysteries of Mithras, commanding the same thing to be done.

For, that bread and a cup of water are placed with certain incantations in the mystic rites of one who is being initiated, you either know or can learn.

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm

Answer 7

In the Catholic church, yes. In most Protestent denominations, no.

Answer 8

You have to be a member of the club to enjoy the privileges.

Answer 9

Yes. I'm 100% sure.

Answer 10

Catholic: Yes
Methodist: no