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I don't know if, even five years later, this is still some latent protestant tendency inside me but occasionally I find myself wishing it didn't matter where we went to church and that as long as we affirmed orthodox teaching on God and what he wants from us then it's all good.
This is more in regard to Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. I know JP2 had the two lung theory but AFAIK that was dogmatic and we're not obligated to subscribe to it, so I don't. Call it scar tissue from the time I spent with the Orthodox looking into their church but I don't buy into this view, not that our fruit is particularly appetizing right now but I digress.
But even if you do subscribe to the two lung theory, I think at the end of the day it does matter. The Orthodox don't allow us to receive their sacraments, and sometimes I think even if we did people would still just go to either an Eastern Catholic Church or the Latin Church just to be on the safe side.
This whole question stems out of me reading an article about something in Greece, which turned my mind to the Greek Orthodox Church, which then had me thinking about how it's kinda cool Greece has their own Church and so does the UK and Russia, and yet (ostensibly anyway) they all worship Jesus and on a very superficial level everything's hunky dory. We know it's not but for a moment it's nice to think that it is.
Maybe the question is less "do you ever wish that it didn't matter?" and more "do you ever wish things were as tidy as they sometimes appear?"
I'm super tired so my brain is weird this morning.
This is more in regard to Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. I know JP2 had the two lung theory but AFAIK that was dogmatic and we're not obligated to subscribe to it, so I don't. Call it scar tissue from the time I spent with the Orthodox looking into their church but I don't buy into this view, not that our fruit is particularly appetizing right now but I digress.
But even if you do subscribe to the two lung theory, I think at the end of the day it does matter. The Orthodox don't allow us to receive their sacraments, and sometimes I think even if we did people would still just go to either an Eastern Catholic Church or the Latin Church just to be on the safe side.
This whole question stems out of me reading an article about something in Greece, which turned my mind to the Greek Orthodox Church, which then had me thinking about how it's kinda cool Greece has their own Church and so does the UK and Russia, and yet (ostensibly anyway) they all worship Jesus and on a very superficial level everything's hunky dory. We know it's not but for a moment it's nice to think that it is.
Maybe the question is less "do you ever wish that it didn't matter?" and more "do you ever wish things were as tidy as they sometimes appear?"
I'm super tired so my brain is weird this morning.