Virginia church may look Anglican, but it's fully Baptist

ABP News ^ | 3/26/2014 | Jeff Brumley

[wonkowasright]

Sunday mornings at All Souls Charlottesville are fairly common for an Anglican congregation.

The Book of Common Prayer and the Revised Common Lectionary are standard, creeds are spoken together, the Eucharist is the central focus of the liturgy and the minister blesses the congregation before it scatters back into the world.

But the Charlottesville, Va., congregation isn’t an Episcopal church. It’s Baptist — in fact it’s a plant of the Baptist General Association of Virginia and is celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2014.

This isn’t a Baptist church in the Charleston tradition, a structured expression of worship often distinguished from the more revivalistic Sandy Creek tradition. It goes beyond that to include wine in communion and the view by some, including Pastor Winn Collier, that worship and life ought to be expressed sacramentally.

[wonkowasright]

This is interesting....

And yes this is a Southern Baptist Convention parish.....

http://www.sbc.net/churchsearch/results.asp?query=All+Souls+Church

[Dutchboy88]

The Romanists have no corner on screwed up theology...

[Oratam]

p4l

[aposiopetic]

“I can say this is where God placed us and we are trying to participate in the broader movement of God in the world,” he said. “But we are Baptists — that’s the reason I am not actually Episcopalian or Orthodox.”

What's that reason again?