[unspun]

Thank you for linking these two threads. Interesting. I appreciate an interest in being true to the New Testament Church (being as true as possible to its Head). I don't see how that is accomplished through grasping any particular tradition, as it presents itself subsequent to those fresh years. I think it best to gain as much as one truly can from the Scriptures, the Logos they describe, the Holy Breath that conveys the Good News, and our Father whom Word and Spirit relate -- abide therein and obediently, creatively apply, here and now.

[Destro]

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When I walk into an Orthodox Church . . . one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven! . . . I love the Orthodox Church's spirit. I think the Orthodox Church many, many centuries ago, discovered a mode of music and worship which is timeless, which is quite apart from fashion, and which somehow answers to the mystery and the solemnity and the sacramental reality of the liturgy.

{"A Conversation With Thomas Howard and Frank Schaeffer," The Christian Activist, vol. 9, Fall/Winter 1996, p. 43}