<P> Most Protestant Christian churches practice open communion, although many require that the communicant be a baptized Christian . Open communion subject to baptism is an official policy of churches in the Anglican Communion . Other churches allowing open communion (with or without the baptism requirement) include the Church of the Nazarene, the Evangelical Free Church, the Church of God, Community Churches, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Presbyterian Church in America, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the United Church of Canada, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, the Free Methodist Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Foursquare Gospel Church, Association of Vineyard Churches, Metropolitan Community Church, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Assemblies of God, the Reformed Church in America, Seventh - day Adventists, Free Will Baptists, Seventh Day Baptists, and most churches in the Southern Baptist Convention . All bodies in the Liberal Catholic Movement practice open communion as a matter of policy . The official policy of the Episcopal Church is to only invite baptized persons to receive communion . However, many parishes do not insist on this and practice open communion . Among Gnostic churches, both the Ecclesia Gnostica and the Apostolic Johannite Church practice open communion . The Plymouth Brethren were founded on the basis of an open communion with any baptized Christian: today, following John Nelson Darby, Exclusive Brethren practise closed communion, and Open Brethren practise open communion on the basis of "receiving to the Lord's table those whom He has received, time being allowed for confidence to be established in our minds that those who we receive are the Lord's ." Most churches in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America practice their own form of open communion, offering the Eucharist to adults without receiving catechetical instruction, provided they are baptized and believe in the Real Presence . The Christian churches and the Calvary Chapel as well as other nondenominational churches also practice open communion . </P> <P> The Church of England and Church of Sweden are open communion churches . </P> <P> Notable exceptions include the Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, Reformed Seventh Day Adventists, and some Reformed or Calvinist denominations (in which you must be a baptized member). All these typically practice some form of closed communion . </P> <P> Churches of Christ, though holding to a closed communion view, in practice do not prohibit visitors from taking communion, on the view that per 1 Corinthians 11: 28 the visitor must "examine himself" and decide to partake or decline (i.e. it is not for the minister, elders / deacons, or members to decide who may or may not partake); thus, the practice is more akin to open communion . </P>

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