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To: lightman

As an ELCA refugee, I found a home in Orthodoxy. Folks should check it out. It is refreshing to be in company with others who have definately Christian beliefs, but do not use it to condemn everyone else.


16 posted on 11/25/2010 7:58:11 AM PST by firebasecody (Orthodoxy, telling it straight since AD 33)
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To: firebasecody

You are my Orthodox Brother (or Sister?)! I also left the ELCA for the holy Orthodox Church. But I had been basically Orthodox for many years before my Chrismation, because of my relationship with the local Serbian-American community.

I believe that the Orthodox Church is the true home of all Christians, and that the Lutheran Reformers (at least in some cases) were feeling their way toward the Orthodox Church, but were blocked by the Western mindset, as well as the Holy Roman Empire and the muslim Turk, which stood between the early Lutherans and any living Orthodox community. And I also believe that God is using all the horrible problems in the ELCA (which have been building for a very long time) to get Lutheran Christians to wake up and to see that they should at least check out the Orthodox Church.

ELCA members (and others) should attend Divine Liturgy in an English-language Orthodox congregation, stay for coffee hour and lunch, and ask both the priest and the faithful lots of questions. You may find that God is calling you into the Orthodox Church!


34 posted on 11/28/2010 1:22:27 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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