The Lord's Supper is celebrated in the confession and glad confidence that, as He says, our Lord gives into our mouths not only bread and wine, but His very body and blood to eat and drink for the forgiveness of sins and to strengthen our union with Him and with one another. Our Lord invites to His table those who, trusting in His word are able to examine themselves, repent of all sin, have faith that He will help them to amend their lives to live under Him, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as He forgives and loves us.
At Immanuel, we observe the Scriptural and Confessional practice of close communion. Because those who eat and drink our Lord's body and blood unworthily do so to their great harm, and because Holy Communion is a confession of faith which is confessed at our altar, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that our congregation and of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, and yet desire to receive the sacrament, are asked to first speak with the pastor.