To: Peanut Gallery
“Those who depart the church are not, I think, fulfilling Christ’s call but are fulfilling the expectations the world has about the church, that we cannot really get along,”Am I the only one to see the irony in this statement coming from a Protestant?
3 posted on
10/22/2006 2:06:42 PM PDT by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace begins in the womb.)
To: Jeff Chandler
I'm a protestant and I think the statement is ridiculous.
To: Jeff Chandler
Hey now. Episcopalians are more Catholic than Protestant. Belonging to the organization has always been more important than doctrine.
I am glad to see this division develop. It is long overdue.
My Christmas song:
May all the Mainlines go to Hell,
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.
7 posted on
10/22/2006 2:16:16 PM PDT by
sine_nomine
(Vote for the Democrats? - the party of Studds and Frank - the new family values party?)
To: Jeff Chandler
You probably are not the only one, but the Anglican Church is in the apostolic tradition, and does not regard itself as having broken away from anything.
What caused the split between the Western Church and the Orthodox? It is rather hard sometimes to tell who left whom.
Being in the "right church" does not guarantee salvation, anyway.
10 posted on
10/22/2006 2:24:05 PM PDT by
docbnj
To: Jeff Chandler
To: Jeff Chandler
When the top rungs of the hierarchy, or the leadership elite within the Church "stray" (as we might put it euphemistically), it becomes the sacred responsibility and requirement of those who remain to RECONSTITUTE the Church, and preferably without further interference by those who tried to lead God's people astray.
Irony? Even Jesus said at the End Times, he will turn away from the false teachers.
15 posted on
10/22/2006 2:32:01 PM PDT by
muawiyah
To: Jeff Chandler
As a Roman Catholic, I can see your point, but we still all have unity as Christians.
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