On Evangelicals and Catholics
This following is a commentary I posted on another blog relating to "Evangelicals and Catholics working together"
As a non-Catholic Christian, for a long time I held an intellectual condescension that Roman Catholicism was on the fringe of Christianity, if not a cult.
The log in my eye was I got stuck on the Catholic's cultural construct (i.e. their way of worship and other practices) and not seeing the spiritual reality it carries. What I didn't see was God's way was and is higher than mine - everytime. The Catholic Christian faith still points and leads back to the person-God Christ Jesus. Who am I to say then, the Catholics are not members of Christ's body?
If evangelicals are critical about the "strangeness" of the Roman Catholic Church, then they must also frown upon the Lutheran, Episcopalian, or the Anglican churches. Because these orthodox churches carry the vestige - more or less - of some Catholic traditions.
When evangelical Christians engage in such a critical eye, they are the Pharisees of the faith. God forbids.
More on the five great Christian spiritual traditions later in my blog.
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Thanks, H. The Christ-centered Christian denominations (including Catholicism and its various orthodoxies)do not disagree on the Nicene Creed. It is on the "admnistrating" of the congregations that we have all these flavors of denominational culture. And yet, these pastors do cross-overs and preach in other denominations.
God's word doesn't change. It's the same across the board for all these churches.
C.S. Lewis is much more eloquent when he cautions about High Theology in his preface to 'Mere Christianity'. I've posted this preface in the next entry.
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