Same with me. I was also Lutheran & I felt something was missing in that church. I found The Orthodox Church through a friend & we had discussions. The more I learned, the more I wanted to know more. So, he took me to his priest & I asked him a lot of things. After a few visit to The Church for the liturgy as a guest, I asked the priest to be a cathecumen. I became a cathecumen for about a year or so, then I was baptised in 2016.
I'm about to become a catechumen. My initial reaction was definitely one of being soothed. It was strange too, at first, standing, venerating the icons, etc. But the Liturgy does something to you if you let it. The hymns stick with you. You find yourself longing for the smell of the incense. The chanting captivates. I really find myself yearning for Sundays now because of the Liturgy. For all my sinful ways and worldly fixations, Orthros and Liturgy is a proper escape from that, and communion with something - someone - eternal. If you're disenchanted with your church, or aren't religious but are searching - do yourself a favor. Attend a Divine Liturgy at an Orthodox church near you. You will be welcomed, and God willing, you will experience what I have experienced.
Before you mock orthodoxy realize it is THE church. The body of christ, its head the Lord. Its practices are probably older than your belief system. It is the ancient church, the way early Christians worshipped, it is an unbroken chain of apostolic succession. If you want to be in a church that has its continuity since the life of Christ and his Apostles. Without errors. Learn about Orthodoxy and why they do the things they do.
Five Patriarchates existed basically in the 1st. Century, Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Virginia. Virginia? what, where did that come from? Of course I meant Jerusalem. Other Bishops served all around the East and the West. The Bishop of Rome outside the enduring consensus defined by Scripture as pleasing to the Holy Spirit decides to change Theology, Doctrine and Dogma unilaterally and not a single Patriarch from antiquity or any other Bishop outside the rule of the Papal State or the realm of Charlemagne fallow and they are the Schismatics. Study History especially the history around the eighth ecumenical council 879-880 and the sacking of Constantinople in 1204 by the third crusade and then try to make the argument that the Orthodox are the schismatics. Rome was the first Protestant Reformers and replaced the authority of the Holy Spirit with the authority of the Papacy an individual. Zwingli, Luther, Calvin and Knox simply used Rome’s example to make themselves and their opinions superior to the Body of Christ and replace the author of the Holy Spirit. Now American Evangelicalism has granted the authority to any individual with a Bible and an opinion who lacks the fear of God to use it.
I was Lutheran,but always found something missing in the Lutheran Church.I found the elements in Orthodoxy and converted in 1996.
God bless you brother.
Same with me. I was also Lutheran & I felt something was missing in that church. I found The Orthodox Church through a friend & we had discussions. The more I learned, the more I wanted to know more. So, he took me to his priest & I asked him a lot of things. After a few visit to The Church for the liturgy as a guest, I asked the priest to be a cathecumen. I became a cathecumen for about a year or so, then I was baptised in 2016.
I'm about to become a catechumen. My initial reaction was definitely one of being soothed. It was strange too, at first, standing, venerating the icons, etc.
But the Liturgy does something to you if you let it. The hymns stick with you. You find yourself longing for the smell of the incense. The chanting captivates. I really find myself yearning for Sundays now because of the Liturgy. For all my sinful ways and worldly fixations, Orthros and Liturgy is a proper escape from that, and communion with something - someone - eternal.
If you're disenchanted with your church, or aren't religious but are searching - do yourself a favor. Attend a Divine Liturgy at an Orthodox church near you. You will be welcomed, and God willing, you will experience what I have experienced.
I believe the Orthodox Faith and Church is the ancient Church.
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Before you mock orthodoxy realize it is THE church. The body of christ, its head the Lord. Its practices are probably older than your belief system. It is the ancient church, the way early Christians worshipped, it is an unbroken chain of apostolic succession. If you want to be in a church that has its continuity since the life of Christ and his Apostles. Without errors. Learn about Orthodoxy and why they do the things they do.
keep it up bro, we are here
Congratulatios, he s almost home!
Divine Liturgy lasts at least 3+ Hours not 1 or so!
This service timeframes seem very short.
Divine Liturgy lasts at least 3+ Hours not 1 or so!
@@evanhi450exactly, the we start the hours at 9:30 am and we’re not eating Trapiza until at the earliest 12:30
Hopefully the orthodox Christians rejoin the Catholic Church sad they broke away
Five Patriarchates existed basically in the 1st. Century, Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Virginia. Virginia? what, where did that come from? Of course I meant Jerusalem. Other Bishops served all around the East and the West. The Bishop of Rome outside the enduring consensus defined by Scripture as pleasing to the Holy Spirit decides to change Theology, Doctrine and Dogma unilaterally and not a single Patriarch from antiquity or any other Bishop outside the rule of the Papal State or the realm of Charlemagne fallow and they are the Schismatics. Study History especially the history around the eighth ecumenical council 879-880 and the sacking of Constantinople in 1204 by the third crusade and then try to make the argument that the Orthodox are the schismatics.
Rome was the first Protestant Reformers and replaced the authority of the Holy Spirit with the authority of the Papacy an individual. Zwingli, Luther, Calvin and Knox simply used Rome’s example to make themselves and their opinions superior to the Body of Christ and replace the author of the Holy Spirit. Now American Evangelicalism has granted the authority to any individual with a Bible and an opinion who lacks the fear of God to use it.
Bunch of picture worshippers
Eloquently, and bravely spoken.
Iconoclasm is a heresy as old as time.
May God forgive you
Silly thing to say
Televangelists are a bunch of 💲
worshippers