Got news for you, buddy, “the church” is wherever “two or more are gathered in my name” and not state-endorsed, incorporated formal organizations with hard assets.
If the Anglican Church is doing the same thing the Methodist church did, it deserves and needs to fracture - and this is from someone who hates denominationalism. The Anglican Church ain’t the end-all-be-all, either. Nor is my church for that matter.
If this was true, then whenever two or more people gathered, they would be compelled by the Holy Spirit to agree on doctrine.
This evidently does not happen.
Doctrinal authority matters, otherwise everyone is just worshiping their own interpretation of God, and not the truth of God.
God can't have both predestined us and not predestined us, for example. It has to be one or the other and there should be an authoritative answer on it, or else people aren't worshiping the same God.
And I do not subscribe to the notion that God just left us high-and-dry to figure it out on our own.
Got news for you, buddy, “the church” is wherever “two or more are gathered in my name” and not state-endorsed, incorporated formal organizations with hard assets.
If the Anglican Church is doing the same thing the Methodist church did, it deserves and needs to fracture - and this is from someone who hates denominationalism. The Anglican Church ain’t the end-all-be-all, either. Nor is my church for that matter.
There still have to be standards. Purge the rot.
If this was true, then whenever two or more people gathered, they would be compelled by the Holy Spirit to agree on doctrine.
This evidently does not happen.
Doctrinal authority matters, otherwise everyone is just worshiping their own interpretation of God, and not the truth of God.
God can't have both predestined us and not predestined us, for example. It has to be one or the other and there should be an authoritative answer on it, or else people aren't worshiping the same God.
And I do not subscribe to the notion that God just left us high-and-dry to figure it out on our own.