Very interesting post.
I agree about how when we worship, we are assembling with the saints in heaven. My pastor did a sermon on that very topic once.
It is unfortunate very few Protestants understand this, however.
"I agree about how when we worship, we are assembling with the saints in heaven. My pastor did a sermon on that very topic once.
It is unfortunate very few Protestants understand this, however."
You know, unfortuate isn't the half of it. By conducting our faith lives "in the here and now", we can easily fall pray to a sort of theological relativism. In other words, The Truth once revealed becomes the pluriform truths of the Episcopalians or other so called mainline Protestant groups, or for that matter, the "relevant" liturgics of the Latin Church. It leads to a belief that The Faith must be made, or rather remade, relevant to today instead of Today being measured by that which is eternally and unchangingly true.
I am somewhat at a loss as to what it is, if anything, about Protestant theology which seems to make this all difficult to understand and accept.