Is it even possible to believe in sola scriptura?

~Anastasia~ said:

I second this. My parish is about 40 minutes away (used to be an hour but they've finished building a road!). I usually listen to a podcast on the way that makes it that much better when I get there. I've shared rides too.

And there's a Pentecostal fellowship I could almost walk to, a Catholic parish less than five minutes by car, as well as easily a dozen Baptist, Methodist, and non-denoms and at least one Lutheran. We have lots of churches here.

It isn't easy during Holy Week, but that would be true even if the parish was ten minutes away.

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ArmyMatt said:

when I visit my parents, the closest parish is 20-30 minutes away depending on traffic.

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TKA_TN said:

It's Greek Orthodox. What would I expect in the service? Would a Lutheran liturgy be similar? I know I wouldn't be able to partake in the Eucharist.

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TKA_TN said:

It's Greek Orthodox. What would I expect in the service? Would a Lutheran liturgy be similar? I know I wouldn't be able to partake in the Eucharist.

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GreekOrthodox said:

The liturgies are similar and Orthodox liturgies are about 30 minutes longer than a standard Lutheran liturgy. This is a VERY rough flow of the Orthodox liturgy. I have marked **Text goes here** as something you would not have in a Lutheran service. The overall flow will be similar just more elaborate.

**** Service of the Word ****
Opening litany and prayers
Collection of short hymns (we dont have anything truly comparable to the 3-4 verse hymns of the West)
**Small entrance** (a procession of the Gospel book by the priest)
Hymns of the day and of the church
Epistle and gospel readings
Sermon (Although some churches might have the sermon located in a different part of the service)

**** Service of Communion ****
**Great entrance** (a procession of the communion elements)
Litany
Creed
**Anaphora** (Words of Institution in the Lutheran liturgy)
Lord's Prayer
Distribution of Communion
Closing prayers

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TKA_TN said:

Fairly similar. No accompanying music, right? No organ or piano?

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~Anastasia~ said:

It depends. Our parish has an organ. Sometimes it is used during the Divine Liturgy (never during Orthros) and sometimes not.

It tends to depend on whether the choir is singing (usually accompanied) or chanters - never accompanied.

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TKA_TN said:

Thank you. Sorry to derail the thread. Guess I should've started a new one.

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GreekOrthodox said:

Constantinople had fallen only seventy years prior to Luther's challenge to the papacy. There probably wasnt much of an Orthodox presence in the Holy Roman Empire and Luther really wouldn't have a reason to request that the Orthodox church adjudicate his case. The Lutherans still had issues with Orthodox theology as we arent steeped into the classification of justification and sanctification the way that the Book of Concord (the defining Lutheran documents) defines things.

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