Comments on: Myths About Other Denominations

By: phil

phil — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:49:57 +0000

@Darrell: No,No, No. You have it all wrong. Ignorance is Strenghth. Amen?

By: Charlie J. Ray

Charlie J. Ray — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:15:55 +0000

I would beg to differ. Many “high church” lectionaries are Reader’s Digest versions where controversial passages are edited to be shorter, leaving out the real meat of the passage.

Only Reformed Anglicans who use the 1662 Lectionary read through the entire Bible and do not edit out the passages on God’s wrath, eternal judgment, the call for repentance, etc.

Often “high church” liturgy is Anglo-Catholic or papist and propagates pelagianism.

On the other hand, your observation of broad evangelicalism and many fundamentalist churches is also accurate. They read only small portions of Scripture and there is no lectionary to follow a yearly reading, teaching and preaching of the whole counsel of Scripture.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Charlie

http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/

By: Gary Held

Gary Held — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:43:28 +0000

@Trex–where I come from it’s a ‘yes’ so long as (here come the qualifications): you change the terminology to call it the “means” of grace, where “means” indicates the channel which the Spirit has sovereignly chosen to use, no matter how humble it may seem to us, and secondly, you understand the “means of grace” don’t work apart from faith, as if by magic.

No, I don’t believe in performing Last Rites, because first of all, I don’t see anywhere the Lord Jesus instituted such a thing, and then it also rests on a theology of merit/glory which I believe misleads Christians from resting in the completed work of Christ.

So glad to find this site. If you want to get a break from dispensationalism, check out our podcast at Radical Grace, especially our episode (find it on iTunes) called “United States of the Beast.”

By: Scorpio

Scorpio — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:27:47 +0000

@Mme Reyer….I didn’t make it that far to see the cake topper the 1st time I watched the wedding slideshow. Hmmmm is right. How appropriate. Talk about life imitating art.

By: trex

trex — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:03:51 +0000

are sacraments “works of grace”? does anyone here believe in performing the last rites?

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:52:44 +0000

@anna
I agree. I am surprised his people did not leave in droves after that.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:42:39 +0000

Did he really just say that kid just had not had his butt beat good enough? Telling his parents they are intimidated by their kids because they don’t make him wear a tie? Sounds to me like this man knows everything-just ask him and he will tell you. So obnoxious.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:30:37 +0000

Love the opening comment about how children have to listen to their parents preferences, and by God, his church had better pay attention to his preferences! Since when!?!

By: CL

CL — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:06:37 +0000

Yes to this post. I think most fundies would be surprised to find that FAR more Scripture is read at a Catholic Sunday Mass than at any Baptist or Evangelical service I’ve ever attended. A Sunday Mass always features a reading from the old Testament, a reading from the Psalms, a reading from Acts or the Epistles, and a reading from the Gospels. And this tally doesn’t even count the Scripture woven into the rest of the liturgy.

By: Mme Reyer

Mme Reyer — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:18:55 +0000

Oh, and did any of you get far enough into the slideshow to see the cake toppers? Hmmmm?