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To: fishtank

OK, I’ll be serious. I have been LCMS for half my life. I became friends with an Orthodox monk who was interested in Japanese ceramic techniques, and worshipped a few times at their monastery. I discussed doctrine and practice, and the idea of changing to Orthodox crossed my mind more than once. Unfortunately he died unexpectedly, and soon after his archimandrite, the one I was discussing with, was arrested and pled guilty to pederasty, and except for a Greek festival, I have not been with any Orthodox since.


20 posted on 04/10/2017 7:29:25 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin
OK, I’ll be serious. I have been LCMS for half my life. I became friends with an Orthodox monk who was interested in Japanese ceramic techniques, and worshipped a few times at their monastery. I discussed doctrine and practice, and the idea of changing to Orthodox crossed my mind more than once.

As one who has been there, or at least the other "one true church" (RC) I ask, unless you have not been born from above and grown in grace and knowledge of the Lord, why would you change to a church that is not seen (in its distinctives) in the record of the NT church much like Rome ?

102 posted on 04/12/2017 7:29:01 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: chajin

I went to the local GO church a couple of different times to have a Greek supper during their yearly festival. But they had a bar serving booze attached to their banquet hall, so that feature really put the whole denomination way past my boundaries for the function of a Christian church.


218 posted on 04/14/2017 12:33:09 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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