The 'Early Church' didn't have "Worship Services" -- and Kindergartners don't appreciate poetry, understand complex math, or attend the symphony. For my part, I'll choose the maturity that the Lord has been cultivating every day in history *since* the 'early church.' Appeals to 'return to the early church' come off as semi-Deistic: the Lord did something 2000 years ago and hasn't been "building his church" since then so let's just go "back" to those so-called blissful early days. No, thanks. I'm thankful for Nicea, for Chalcedon, for Augustine (contra Pelagius), for Athanasius (contra Arius), for the filioque clause, for Luther (contra Erasmus and Rome), for John Hus, for the Reformation, for the Synod of Dordt, for the products of the Long Parliament--and for their revision in the U.S., for the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy, and every controversy since then that has shaped our character and understanding.
I am thankful for Providence--for who and what the (true) church is *today*.
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2024-09-02 16:04:47
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