I like one of PV's suggestions, "Sacramental Churches." I am not aware of any Protestants who would claim to have sacraments and be confused as to the difference between Protestant Apostolics and historic Apostolics.
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I like one of PV's suggestions, "Sacramental Churches." I am not aware of any Protestants who would claim to have sacraments and be confused as to the difference between Protestant Apostolics and historic Apostolics.
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Lutherans--that's 1/3 of all the Protestants in the world--certainly have sacraments and value them every bit as much as Anglicans and Old Catholics. And then there are Methodists, Presbyterians, and others who would have a case to make.
I have come to the conclusion RestoreTheRiver reached. Leave it alone. The issue with Pentecostals mistaking the makeup of the forum is not a very large or frequently-occurring problem.
I like Sacramental Churches as a title for the forum.
I agree. I also like the title "Sacramental Churches" for this forum.
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"Apostolic & Liturgical" might work as a qualifier.
Mary
I like this.
How about we merge things a bit?
"Liturgical Sacramentalists - Apostolic Churches"
1. It keeps those who want to simply keep the forum official title of "Apostolic Churches" happy
2. It allows a distinction between Apostolic Churches from the Pentecostal variety.
3. It directly implies a necessity of Apostolic Succession and Tradition, which keeps the intended target audience intact (some Lutherans could argue they are Apostolic [and I admit with some excellent reason] anyway even if we did keep it simply as Apostolic Churches).
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Let the Pentecostals change their name. We were here first...
But- I like the "(non-pentecostal)" qualifier too.
...but calling Apostolic Christians "non-pentecostal" is a bit like calling a radio a "non-television". We are pentecostal, aren't we? (Just not Pentecostal)
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I have come to the conclusion RestoreTheRiver reached. Leave it alone. The issue with Pentecostals mistaking the makeup of the forum is not a very large or frequently-occurring problem.
This is also true- and once they arrive to the forum they soon realise that they are not in a pentecostal forum.
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Let the Pentecostals change their name. We were here first...
But- I like the "(non-pentecostal)" qualifier too.
...but calling Apostolic Christians "non-pentecostal" is a bit like calling a radio a "non-television". We are pentecostal, aren't we? (Just not Pentecostal)
That was my thought, too - "Hey, we're Pentecostal!" Pentecost is a very big deal in Orthodoxy.
Anyway, maybe we should just leave things as they are.
Mary
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Pentecost is a very big deal in Orthodoxy.
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