Greg on Nostr: Have you entered the Orthodox Church, or are you still in the consideration stage? I ...
Have you entered the Orthodox Church, or are you still in the consideration stage? I came close to becoming Orthodox but instead checked out a conservative Anglican communion called the Charismatic Episcopal Church (CEC). I thought it would give my wife and I the benefits of Orthodoxy but not seem so foreign, which bothered her more than me at the time.
However, in the CEC I found that they did not have an answer to the problem of unity in the Church. I came to the conclusion that the solution that Jesus gave us is the successors of the Apostles (bishops) who are united around the successor of Peter (the Pope of Rome).
I reluctantly entered the Catholic Church, mostly out of obedience to the truth that I believed had been revealed to me. It has since proved to be a blessing to my wife and I, despite current problems in the hierarchy. Just like in the Protestant world, there are good and bad people as well as good and bad communities within the Catholic world, and we have found some good ones. I have also found great blessings in the saints and established traditions of the Church. Even though there is argument, controversy, and confusion on these things today, especially on the Internet, we have 2000 years of solid doctrine and godly examples to cling to and can pretty much ignore the present-day noise.
Interestingly, there was a scandal in the leadership of the CEC shortly after we became Catholic resulting in several of my friends leaving. Most of them became Eastern Orthodox.
However, in the CEC I found that they did not have an answer to the problem of unity in the Church. I came to the conclusion that the solution that Jesus gave us is the successors of the Apostles (bishops) who are united around the successor of Peter (the Pope of Rome).
I reluctantly entered the Catholic Church, mostly out of obedience to the truth that I believed had been revealed to me. It has since proved to be a blessing to my wife and I, despite current problems in the hierarchy. Just like in the Protestant world, there are good and bad people as well as good and bad communities within the Catholic world, and we have found some good ones. I have also found great blessings in the saints and established traditions of the Church. Even though there is argument, controversy, and confusion on these things today, especially on the Internet, we have 2000 years of solid doctrine and godly examples to cling to and can pretty much ignore the present-day noise.
Interestingly, there was a scandal in the leadership of the CEC shortly after we became Catholic resulting in several of my friends leaving. Most of them became Eastern Orthodox.