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    Why are there still prophets?

    Which particular prophets do you have in mind?
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    Critical Text vs. Received Text?

    I am Eastern Orthodox so you would think I would be rooting for a "Byzantine Majority Text", but I don't think such a coherent text ever existed. In fact, there was such disparity between the different Byzantine texts being used in the different locations in the Ottoman Empire (i.e. the former...
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    Living Like Christ Day by Day, How?

    Dear Blu, I am more than happy to share my opinions on this. They are all really good questions that I think we all need to ask ourselves. I am coming from an Orthodox Christian perspective, though, so others may disagree (maybe quite strongly) with some of all of my answers. I am not going...
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    Halloween in the Traditional Churches

    St. John Maximovich didn't think much of halloween (from http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/johnmx1.htm): "At the end of October the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast of All Saints. There is a tradition that during the preceding night the dark spirits celebrated their own...
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    Liturgical design for Catholic Churches

    St. Germanus of Constantinople wrote a short text in the early 8th century called On the Divine Liturgy that describes the theological meaning of much of what is in the Church. I found a dual-language version (English/Greek) online here...
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    women leaders and priest in the church

    I think Erose summarized the function pretty well, from my understanding of it. Women were never permitted to serve as "priests" (presbyteroi) or "bishops" (episkopoi), but they were permitted to serve as deaconesses. Paul refers to Phoebe as a deaconess of the church at Cenchrea (Romans 16:1)...
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    Living Like Christ Day by Day, How?

    These are completely my thoughts to myself - I won't be offended if you discard :) Actually, this is precisely what Jesus commands us to do: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind (Luke 10:27) and Pray...
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    The Gift

    The Lord made it quite clear what we would need to do to inherit eternal life. In essence, he taught that our salvation is not strictly personal, but is something we accomplish through love for our brother, in accordance with his 2nd great commandment: When the Son of man shall come in his...
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    We are all Christians but why are we not all members of the Vineyard Church?

    What a great story! Thank you for sharing.
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    We are all Christians but why are we not all members of the Vineyard Church?

    Personally, I don't think you can learn much about the Orthodox Church in a forum. Unfortunately, fora are by definition somewhat argumentative and we leave the realm of speaking in Spirit and Truth pretty quickly. Personally, I try not to offer any kind of opinion on something unless someone...
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    We are all Christians but why are we not all members of the Vineyard Church?

    Understood. I was discussing the document that I found on the vineyardusa.org, not the UK one. But it seems there are multiple Vineyard organizations in the US. I thought you were affiliated with the one whose website is vineyardusa.org.
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    Pray for Russia.

    Indeed! One of the few Christian nations left on earth. And may they be praying for us also.
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    We are all Christians but why are we not all members of the Vineyard Church?

    I'm curious about what left the "sour taste"? This thread was posted in a debate forum asking people why they were not in the Vineyard. I don't know anything about it, so I am asking some questions that get as close as possible to what seems to be doctrine contrary to that of the Orthodox...
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    We are all Christians but why are we not all members of the Vineyard Church?

    Oh, ok - Sorry. I thought you were affiliated with this particular "Vineyard" church given your byline.
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    We are all Christians but why are we not all members of the Vineyard Church?

    I just read through quickly, but two questions come to mind: 1. The Statement professes belief in "one, holy, universal Church", whereas in the 4th century the Church professed belief in "one, Holy, and Universal ("catholic") and Apostolic" Church. Why does the Vineyard not believe that the...
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