We teach that in order for you to take Lord’s Supper, you need to be a baptised believer. Acts 2:41–42 states the proper order for when a believer should partake in Lord’s Supper:

“So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”

In these verses, individuals believe (“received his word”) prior to their baptism. Only after baptism did these new believers become part of the community, participation in which included “the breaking of bread,” a common New Testament designation for the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is for Christians only. You need to already partaken of Christ and be in fellowship with His people (1 Cor 10:16–17).

We teach that there are penalties for unbelievers partaking or professing believers taking it while in unrepentant sin. They eat and drink judgement to themselves, if they partake of the Table, while not having partaken of Christ. (1 Cor 11:27–31)

We teach that the Lord’s Supper is administered by the church and not something that we partake of privately at home. The church is responsible to make sure that only Christians partake of the Supper. The biblical way for the church to know if people profess to be Christians is not if such people claim to have prayed a prayer, but if they have testified publicly of their faith in Christ through believers’ baptism. Believers’ baptism is the public declaration of faith in Christ. 

Almost no churches in Christian history have allowed unbaptised people to partake of the Table. The modern confusion on this matter comes from infant baptism. Since Romanists, the Eastern Orthodox, and some protestant churches baptise infants, almost all churchgoers partake of communion. That is, since no one in those traditions is viewed as unbaptised, (since everyone is baptised as a baby) all children, teenagers and adults partake. All of these churches believe that they are allowing only baptised people to partake of the Supper. 

We reject infant baptism as valid baptism. Biblical baptism is the baptism of disciples who confess Jesus Christ. Baptism comes after this profession, not before. Therefore, we do not believe that someone who was sprinkled, dipped, or even immersed as an infant has been baptised. Only once such a person has been scripturally baptised, is he permitted to partake of the table. 

We teach that the purpose of Lord’s Supper is to remember the death of Christ and resurrection of Christ and its significance.

The elements used to represent Christ's body and blood are unleavened bread and fruit from the vine. Though the exact kind of bread is not specified, leaved bread would not have been allowed during Passover. Throughout scripture we have this repeated theme where leaven represents sin (1 Corinthians 5). Since the bread represents the body of our perfect sinless Saviour Christ Jesus; bread that is leavened would not be a fitting representative element in communion.

At the Last Supper Jesus did use wine and there was some level of fermentation. We understand that the level of alcohol was not significant because in the cultural context alcohol was not stored for years as from harvest to harvest, the wine would be consumed. As a result, the alcoholic content of the wine would depend on what time of year you were drinking it and how distant it was from the harvest. Nevertheless, the alcoholic content was not part of the picture necessary to represent the blood of Christ. The necessary element to represent the blood of Christ is the red fruit of the vine. Therefore, we see the use non-alcoholic juice as a fitting representation to be used in the Lord’s Supper.

We teach that the elements are not sacraments and that they do not infuse any extra righteousness into the believer. We also teach at the Lord’s supper we are not practicing transubstantiation. The bread and the drink is not the literal body and blood of Christ and we are not sacrificing the body of Christ all over again. Christ death on the cross was a complete payment for sins. Partaking in the Lord’s Supper is remembering Christ sacrifice and giving an appropriate regard for what was graciously done for us.