As essential as the regular frequency of the observance may have been to Calvin, Barth suggests that this was not Calvin’s principal concern. In stead, the principal concern was the purity of the church, the worthiness of the congregant to come forward. “The institution of the Lord’s Supper has as its aim the uniting of the members of Christ to their Head and the uniting among themselves as one body and spirit. But this union must not be stained and besmirched by the participation of those whose evil lives declare that they do not belong to Jesus.â€
