tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post8982698824717908261..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: The lie of dialogue. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-70914141954071436092019-02-02T08:10:57.898-06:002019-02-02T08:10:57.898-06:00Or he could be saying that you cannot rest in your...Or he could be saying that you cannot rest in your vigilance for orthodoxy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-62536963221387420272019-02-01T22:18:24.757-06:002019-02-01T22:18:24.757-06:00Within the LCMS, the Seminex sympathizers rejoice ...Within the LCMS, the Seminex sympathizers rejoice because of the quiet tolerance of liberal theology within modern Evangelicalism. FiveTwo, Congregations Matter, and similar Evangelical "church growth" interest groups in the LCMS relish the gradual abandonment of the hymnal, the Small Catechism, and the liturgy. Rick Warren is slowly replacing C.F.W. Walther.<br /><br />Pastor Peters wrote: "...Peters' law is that progressivism may be slowed and even stalled but it cannot be prevented."<br /><br />Taken to its logical conclusion, in 30 years the LCMS will be indistinguishable in theology and practice from a typical nondenominational congregation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-26006698276101280882019-02-01T17:09:29.612-06:002019-02-01T17:09:29.612-06:00And on this common good will is some sense of comm...And on this common good will is some sense of communion,the honest search for Truth, Who is Christ the Lord.Archimandrite Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894842027467584759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-89575154412462188662019-02-01T12:53:04.090-06:002019-02-01T12:53:04.090-06:00As an Lutheran, I want to thank Archimandrite Greg...As an Lutheran, I want to thank Archimandrite Gregory and William Tighe. We do not agree on everything, and we know what those things are (and they are certainly not unimportant). We are not in communion, and most likely will not be in this life, but nonetheless I feel the kinship of running the same race. Like running full tilt across a mine field towards the same goal, and giving a knowing nod to that unknown solider. May we meet in His peace and unity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-33910039192132262022019-02-01T10:54:15.297-06:002019-02-01T10:54:15.297-06:00My comment was intended half-facetiously; I am wel...My comment was intended half-facetiously; I am well-aware that the matters at issue, the current "presenting issues," do not concern women voting.<br /><br />Fr.D+ is quite right to distinguish between the first exodus from the Episcopal Church, in the 70s, over WO, and the second, less than 20 years ago, over SSP (same-sex pseudogamy). The former are largely Anglo-Catholic Anglican traditionalists, the latter Canute-like conservative Episcopalians.William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043433059401608468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-11220187525641559552019-02-01T10:29:56.448-06:002019-02-01T10:29:56.448-06:00By the way I very much enjoy your commitment to up...By the way I very much enjoy your commitment to upholding the truth as you know it to be. So refreshingArchimandrite Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894842027467584759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-48820756790426308572019-02-01T10:28:09.894-06:002019-02-01T10:28:09.894-06:00I wish to share with you the spiritual insight of ...I wish to share with you the spiritual insight of the Patriarch of Moscow Kiril. On the Church and the world <br />The era in which we are living is very complex. The most dangerous thing that is happening today is the blurring of boundaries between good and evil. The devil has succeeded in suggesting to people that he doesn’t exist, and now he is managing to suggest that good and evil are relative concepts. So to say, everyone has his own good, his own truth, and it all depends on the circumstances—one and the same thing can be either good or evil. This whirlwind, this juggling of the most sacred understandings, which have a direct relationship to the salvation of the human soul, is the greatest temptation of our era. <br />But the Church is set as a guard; the Church is called to make known God’s truth. Often what the Church says is not understood in full measure by the world around us, and sometimes it is even rejected by it—precisely because the news that the Church brings to the world comes from God Himself. And if the devil wars against God, then it is quite natural that the word of the Church directed at the world is often distorted, misunderstood, and even subjected to mockery. <br />But with all the complexities of today’s life, a believing Christian cannot lose hope, because in the Word of God it is said: I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it (Matt. 16:18). This means that until the end of the world the Church will bear God’s truth, regardless of whether or not this truth is accepted. <br />Sermon on the eve of the feast of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God,<br />Optina Monastery, July 20, 2017. <br /><br />Archimandrite Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894842027467584759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-10032322639777360562019-02-01T10:17:51.781-06:002019-02-01T10:17:51.781-06:00As an Orthodox Christian have the certainty of the...As an Orthodox Christian have the certainty of the Faith delivered and maintained by faithful witness. I "put not my trust in princes, in sons of men who have no salvation." In our present crisis I know what the church teaches and what some men with itching ears would lead us to embrace. Here I am speaking within the Orthodox Church. I trust in my bishops when they teach the truth without exaggeration nor diminution. Trust in Christ who has revealed Himself and does enlighten the world!Archimandrite Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894842027467584759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-43844673066662792692019-02-01T10:02:48.406-06:002019-02-01T10:02:48.406-06:00With respect to Anglicanism, Pastor Peters brush i...With respect to Anglicanism, Pastor Peters brush is too broad. What he says is true of some, such as the rather large group that left ECUSA very late, but is completely untrue with respect to the Continuing Anglican movement that left in the late 1970s. The diocese of Forth Worth is one where Pastor Peters comments hold true, but they are not true in the Anglican Catholic Church, the Anglican Province of Christ the King, the Anglican Church in America, or the Diocese of the Holy Cross. <br /><br />When smearing tar, it is important not to blacken everything in sight because the result then is false.<br /><br />Fr.D+<br />Continuing Anglican PriestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-68090102694609727062019-02-01T09:16:58.168-06:002019-02-01T09:16:58.168-06:00This article is spot-on. Thank you, Pastor Peters...This article is spot-on. Thank you, Pastor Peters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-26043831657876913002019-02-01T09:12:20.056-06:002019-02-01T09:12:20.056-06:00Perhaps I do not understand the point "Willia...Perhaps I do not understand the point "William Tighe and Rev Danby" is making but I do not think "women voting" is the point Pastor Peter's is making about being ever vigilant for "Progressives" patiently working to change truth. "Democracy" may well be "the worst form of Government there is...except for all the rest" but voting rights is not what the Bible is about. Christians have ..and will...live under all kinds of governments. The focus in on Biblical Truth and unending attacks to change Truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-14530682229534961662019-02-01T08:54:50.060-06:002019-02-01T08:54:50.060-06:00Pastor Peters writes..quite correctly: "Ortho...Pastor Peters writes..quite correctly: "Orthodoxy is ever vigilant … not because it is weak or fearful but because the truth is so important. Perhaps the underlying cause of all of this is the lack of national leaders with the stature to rally the causes and the lack of a “commonly agreed upon authority” to settle disputes. Lutherans appeal to “Scripture Alone”… but if we do not agree with what Scripture is or what it says, this appeal is hard to utilize to end dispute.Furthermore, the skeptical modern mind has led us to be skeptics of Scripture and our penchant for individual truth has made it hard to even speak of objective truth that is for all people."<br />The answer is simple: LC-MS must teach/preach/confess/proclaim "Catechism, Liturgy, Your Various Vocations" to answer that basic question "Did God Really Say?" While there are some "mysteries" in Scripture, most Scripture is pretty simple...and simple people can understand the basics of: "Catechism, Liturgy and Your Various Vocations". The truth must always be preached...LC-MS will always have to remain vigilant against the attacks against these simple truths. Keep it simple..."Catechism, Liturgy and Your Various Vocations".. for all. This answer is simple...but it will not be easy and much of the world will reject the simple truths...but the Elect will hear and be comforted. And faithful pastors like Pastor Peters will always keep the truth before us. "Ever Vigilant" is just who you are..in Christ. Blog on...thanks. Timothy Carter, simple country Deacon.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-14855775312795564852019-02-01T07:30:12.102-06:002019-02-01T07:30:12.102-06:00"It may be inferred again that the present mo..."It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights, will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent, Northern conservatism. This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity, and will be succeeded by some third revolution, to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it he salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious, for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always—when about to enter a protest—very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its “bark is worse than its bite,” and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent rôle of resistance. The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy from having nothing to whip. No doubt, after a few years, when women’s suffrage shall have become an accomplished fact, conservatism will tacitly admit it into its creed, and thenceforward plume itself upon its wise firmness in opposing with similar weapons the extreme of baby suffrage; and when that too shall have been won, it will be heard declaring that the integrity of the American Constitution requires at least the refusal of suffrage to asses. There it will assume, with great dignity, its final position.”<br /><br />-Rev. Robert L Danby (1820 – 1898)William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043433059401608468noreply@blogger.com