What has happened to us today is a slide bit by bit from the orthodoxy of the first churches (Acts 2:42) and piety (Acts 2:43), first into unorthodox Romanism and Byzantine practices that became a redefined orthodoxy, that of the statist church, the religious organ of the emperor/king; and subsequently through the ages until now, until we have experienced such a plethora of unorthodoxy that it has become standard, and the Way of The Cross has been lost.
A matter of degrees and not totally lost but a eloquent elucidation nonetheless. I thinkthe pastor will appreciate it which i do.
49 posted on 02/06/2018 3:13:36 PM PST by daniel1212
(Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)