Q.173. Should the Lord’s supper be withheld from anyone who professes the faith and wants to come to it?

A. The sacrament should and must be withheld by th e authority Christ has left in his church from those whose profession of faith is based on spiritual ignorance or whose lives have scandalized the church,[1] until they are properly instructed and demonstrate by their behavior that they have reformed their lives.[2]

1	1 Corinthians 11:27-31	dummy text
	1 Corinthians 5:1-13	dummy text
	Jude 23	dummy text
	1 Timothy 5:22	dummy text
2	2 Corinthians 2:5-8	dummy text
	1 Corinthians 5:4-5	dummy text