[1000 silverlings]

To outright forbid the sharing of the Lord's Supper with another Christian seems like a peculiar form of intimidation.

Yes, it's called the Lord's supper, not a church's potluck bingo night supper spaghetti crab feed.

Moreover, the burden of a clean heart before the Lord, is upon the participant not upon other Christians. "Protecting the things of the Lord" can get you killed. 2 Samuel 6

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for your encouragement, dear 1000 silverlings! And thank you for that beautiful Scripture!

Truly, God permits man to certain things in worshiping Him. And such things are made sacred by His will, e.g. the burning bush, the Temple, the Ark of the Covenant, the Cup and the Bread.

But God does not "need" man - such concepts of necessity are illusions.

His presence, His dwelling is not physical. He cannot be contained (the broken cistern in Jeremiah 2:13)

And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay [his] head. - Matt 8:20

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. - John 1:10

The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. - Psalms 24:1

Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest? For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. - Isaiah 66:1-2

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. - Isaiah 57:15-17

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. - I John 4:13

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God. - Revelation 21:3

To God be the glory, not man, never man!