[Cronos]

well, my two bits -- the head pastor should admit that this will mean women as pastor, elders etc. it's an all or nothing vote.

You can't have women as pastors but not up. that wouldn't work. It's 0 or 1.

[JCBreckenridge]

Sadly, he wasn’t honest enough with himself. I told him - look. Why I left is because I felt the same structural weaknesses in your church were the same as those felt by the Anglicans. Even though when I left you were still faithful bible-believing Christians.

I actually was reading a very dry and boring book before I came over that made this exact argument. Look at the structure, and talked about how the doctrine of a church is affected by the peculiar structure. It was actually written by a Lutheran or something. I found the book provocative because I realized that this was exactly the problem and that nobody really understood it at the time.

So I left, and now I’m thankful that I did. It was good to leave when I had the time to ponder and think things through as to why I should swim the Tiber. Before the Ordinariate too, so I’m just plain ol’ Novus Ordo. :)