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Letters! We Get Letters! October 5, 2006

It does not bother me that the Bishop arrives in Turkish robes and changes to Byzantine. That is quaint. It shows we have history. It unites us to believers in past ages. But it does bother me that one aspect of the dynamism of the early Church is suppressed, that is the Spirit led witness and ministry of every layman, the Photinis and Mary Magdalenes, by a centralizing legalism that is papal, and western and imported into the Church. That is perhaps why, after two hundred years of Orthodoxy, most Americans don’t know who we are; but after a hundred years of Pentecostalism, the charismatic church has acquired six hundred million members worldwide, more than twice the size of moribund Orthodoxy; while, the evangelicals have translated the Bible into more than six hundred languages, we have yet to get the Septuagint into English. Lord, have mercy.

— Sent from a blog reader via email regarding this post (note the lengthy, occasionally edifying, discussion in the Comments).


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