Editing Altar rail (section)

==Methodist churches==
In many Methodist churches, communicants receive holy communion at the chancel rails, devoutly kneeling.<ref name="White2008"/> The [[Sacrament|rite]] of [[confirmation]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itrinity.org/livesite/files/131017,_Confirmation_ordo_-_movements.pdf|title=Confirmation|date=27 October 2013|publisher=Trinity-Sarasaota United Methodist Church|language=en|access-date=17 March 2017|quote=Candidates and parent(s)/sponsor(s) come as name is called and stand at the altar rail.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317044140/http://www.itrinity.org/livesite/files/131017,_Confirmation_ordo_-_movements.pdf|archive-date=2017-03-17|url-status=dead}}</ref> as well as the imposition of ashes on [[Ash Wednesday]] takes place at the chancel rail in many Methodist parishes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oxfordmethodist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Imposition-of-Ashes.pdf|title=A Service of Worship and Imposition of Ashes|last1=Wilson|first1=Jenny|last2=Dulaney|first2=Earl |date=1 March 2017|publisher=Oxford United Methodist Church|language=en|access-date=17 March 2017}}</ref> The chancel rail also serves as the place where many individuals go, during the part of the Methodist liturgy called the ''[[altar call|Altar Call]]'' or ''An Invitation to Christian Discipleship'', to experience the [[Born again|New Birth]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kimbrough|first=S.T.|title=Orthodox and Wesleyan Ecclesiology |year=2007|publisher=St Vladimir's Seminary Press |language=en|page=221}}</ref> 

Some people who have already had the New Birth go to the chancel rails to receive [[entire sanctification]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kimbrough|first=S.T.|title=Orthodox and Wesleyan Ecclesiology |year=2007|publisher=St Vladimir's Seminary Press |language=en|page=221}}</ref> Others go there repent of their sins, as well as [[Christian prayer|pray]].<ref name="White2008">{{cite book|last=White|first=Charles Edward|title=The Beauty of Holiness: Phoebe Palmer as Theologian, Revivalist, Feminist and Humanitarian|date=2 September 2008|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|language=en|isbn=9781556358012|page=256}}</ref> During this time, a Methodist minister attends to each person at the chancel rail, offering spiritual counsel.<ref>{{cite book|title=Traces of Old Methodism |year=1869|publisher=The Primitive Methodist|language=en|page=737}}</ref>