This is not true. We preach the gospel of salvation for all who believe. Then tell believers to be baptized and repent. Jesus says whoever believes has eternal life. If you insert works into the message, you steer them away from trusting in Christ into trusting in the works they think saved them.
I ask you to consider there is: The Altar call which is the call of the body, for others to come to the Head. As ByGrace said it is Spiritual. A call to Christ and can be anytime anywhere God chooses. The only reason for this thread was to show our part as the body being God’s House (Habitation)made without hands. The body being where the power of Love is to draw to Christ who is the head, and not the walls or altar of any building being power. It is important to me because I steer away from church buildings but that is not the body but the people gathered there. Maybe you prefer Table over Altar? Both are Christ. Again for me seeing this of Christ and His body as One: one bread...really opened up why Paul was so stern about the damnation of those coming to the table fell under when rooting others weak out from the table. Paul even went as far as to rebuke: “do you not eat at home?”
Colossians 3:14-15
[14] And above all these things put on charity, which
is the bond of perfectness. [15] And let the peace of God
rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in
one body; and be ye thankful.
We can not take the Spiritual out because you dislike the physical. Maybe you dislike the word altar but in referring to the Table it is powerful. Same as circumcision of the flesh is done away with for circumcision of the heart(inwardly). It is powerful. Same as ‘to raise the dead’ you may say is not for today...but there are those who will be raised from the dead today. It is Spiritual and you can’t argue away that we have an Altar to eat of only because you dislike what altar signifies in false worship of idols.
1 Corinthians 10:17-22
[17] For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. [18] Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? [19] What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? [20] But I say , that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. [21] Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. [22] Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
We eat of That Table, That Altar which IS the Lord. We call others to the body of Christ to partake of His Death and of His Resurrection into newness of Life.