DCP on Nostr: OK, thanks, I just listened to this and I'm not sure I buy it, at least not ...
OK, thanks, I just listened to this and I'm not sure I buy it, at least not completely...🤔
I have particularly been aware of the apparent "Pauline exception," but even in that case he was making an observation and not instructing his "children" to call him father.
Neither can I get past this brother's idea that "priests are special?" Are we not, as believers, *all* priests? Are we not a holy nation?
I do appreciate his call to humility.
I'm going to link what I perceive to be an excellent counterpoint to the heirarchical Orthodox view in a separate note...😃
I have particularly been aware of the apparent "Pauline exception," but even in that case he was making an observation and not instructing his "children" to call him father.
Neither can I get past this brother's idea that "priests are special?" Are we not, as believers, *all* priests? Are we not a holy nation?
I do appreciate his call to humility.
I'm going to link what I perceive to be an excellent counterpoint to the heirarchical Orthodox view in a separate note...😃