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Thank you much! It's my favorite one (which happens to be one of two that I have :D)

Thank you!

I'm grateful for your thoughts. My condolences at the loss of your father so early in your adulthood. Kneeling and crossing oneself is not a widespread practice for Episcopalians or Anglicans in my experience. I've known a few, but not many take the moment to do so before entering the pew (many of these same will also do the same when they leave the pew to approach receiving communion). All of that wrapped up together is a beautiful picture of reverence toward the Lord. All of your words about your father are wonderful. I hope that thoughts of him will continue to influence your life and that you will continue to sense Christ and that you will be led by him into deep fellowship with his people. Blessings to you!

@@graceanglicangastonia9076 yes thank you for that father. My father’s family were descendent from a proper English family so maybe that’s where that tradition came from

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One day I might do that.

So grateful to have been of help through this video. Thanks for watching! May you be blessed in your day today.

And thank you much for the congratulations!

Appreciate the watch and kind words Jim! I hope all is well for you and your church. Blessings!

Please don't speak on the this man of God

@@SugeCane ill say as I please, unless god wants to stop me.... No? Guess gods on my side then, as this comment CLEARLY proves... 🤣

And I speak to that in my previous video called The Word of the Lord. Not all things from Vatican II are horrible changes. The phrase itself is a constant reminder of the inspiration of Scripture since we connect it to every Old and New Testament reading. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!

@@graceanglicangastonia9076 Yes is isn't a bad thing, only not a longstanding Anglican tradition.

It is true that the COE is a wreck by their not following the simple truth of Scripture. That downgrading of Scripture has led to many being in opposition to COE and working to establish new jurisdictions. Here in the states, the ACNA is mostly formed by priests and churches leaving TEC because of the same things.

I can see that. But making experience one of our lens has always made me nervous as it can so easily take over the whole paradigm. Experience often gets boiled down to feelings and how Scripture makes me feel. Yet, there is an importance to acknowledging the role that experience plays when kept in the right location. I'm not sure I would raise it up to becoming one of the lens through which we view Scripture, but it is certainly an aspect that at least is connected to reason regarding application of Scripture. And how you use experience, I think, is also connected to how you connect textual meaning and application to each other. Is application so wrapped up in meaning that it can never change and is always an inherent part of the meaning of the text or not? I always appreciated on of my seminary profs who said that "meaning is a circle," that is, there is a wide swath of area around the absolute and primary point of the text, the center you might say. Thus you can have tangential meanings that relate back to the primary meaning which helps includes application of the text. These tangential things are what you see coming out of the text and may differ from time to time because of your accumulated experiences, but your goal is always to drive toward the central aspect of the passage. Hence, we can always go back and discover aspects of the text that we never saw before as we continue to study it.

@@graceanglicangastonia9076 Amen!

I've always appreciated the article. It's emphasis on things necessary to salvation are easily found in Scripture allows there to be some room for working through the much harder doctrines as well as allowing some leave-way regarding doctrinal disagreements to a certain extent. We can all develop a very strong foundation of agreement, but we must always acknowledge that some things are not spelt out enough for us to know them fully and there will be slightly different understandings. However, the foundation is always clear and to deviate from that foundation is to deviate from Scripture. I think that that is what makes the 39 articles fantastic. They lay a hefty and strong foundation of doctrine that is clearly laid out in Scripture, but carefully recognize that there are some extension of these doctrines that may get built out slightly differently in different times and places, but those must always go back to the foundation laid out. They give to us a proper "pale of understanding" for where we need to always be when it comes to our understanding of the faith without getting into the weeds of controversial explanations.

Thanks! So glad you found us and have been blessed. You’ve been a blessing and benefit to all we do!

I have to admit that I had to look up Gadamer, as that is a name I’m unfamiliar with. 😊 Thanks!

he is very important to those of us that work from a perspective of Biblical Theology--that Biblical Theology is not a historic endeavor, which is better described as Biblical Literature, but that Biblical Theology is reading the revealed God of scripture and the theology of the text itself as primary and then using tools like Gadamer's bridge to build a from an ancient text, in another language and from an entirely different thought world can speak in a contemporary setting with the same authenticity, life changing power from the same Spirit that spoke into and shaped the faith community in which the text first lived and breathed to speak that same transformative Word of the Father. Well i did run on a bit--but you get the idea.

@@genegifford ahhhh! I read about his work but wasn’t fully understanding of what it all meant since it was a brief synopsis. So now I understand that your compliment wasn’t only a nice word to me but truly high praise. Thank you for that explanation and even more for your gracious words above.

That could be fun!

Amen

Glad you found it useful for yourself! Blessings to you!

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@@xXxevilgoatxXx it does, but in the long run it’s the content of my comment that matters. When those who are questioning their faith come to converse I will offer honest debate. I was still in the church when I started my deconversion.

@@fonoflux1 I'd love to debate with you, the facts are there are over 5000 manuscript that are over 95% identical in their original written language that you, yourself can translate if you want with modern technology. All of which are eye witness testimony of individuals. We know things exist in history because of the large number of eye witnesses, it's not like we have a video of George Washington as the first president. Our dating system was adopted because of this historical event of the resurrection. Now what's myth?

@@fonoflux1 Do you have a lot in common with Demas? (He went out from Paul and the Church because he loved what he could have in the world...) My friend, I am not like Demas, and instead much like Reepicheep, I have an imagination that exceeds what this life is capable of, and fortunately, the Truth is, this life is a mier preliminary state, and what comes next is "unlocked" so to speak. Thank God! Because life is more than a 9-5, it's more than grumpy people, it's more than everything we can find here! So Why Deconvert? The alternative to Christ is misery! The transfiguration, along with 1 Cor 15 35-58 about the resurrection body, shows that we aren't going to be stuck as we currently are. But so much more amazing, and capable of enjoying ourselves. Paul said, I don't count it equal to be compared, the trials and temporary suffering of this life, with the Glory that will be revealed to us in Christ! Reconsider, the alternative really sucks! 🦖

It's my pleasure. I'm grateful that you are finding them helpful.

⁠I live close to the hq of the Anglican North American church near Loganville Georgia great church

I bet that’s awesome! Have you been able to visit the cathedral there?

Amen!

Thanks so much! I appreciate it.

For those referring to this as the 11th Sunday they are probably counting it from Trinity Sunday. That is the traditional way in the one year lectionary that is found in the the 1662 and 1928 Books of Common Prayer. With liturgical changes in the '60s, a three year lectionary was introduced that counting Sundays after Pentecost instead of Trinity. So counting from Pentecost Sunday, we are on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost. If counting from Trinity Sunday (which of course is the first Sunday after Pentecost), it is always one less Sunday, being the 11th Sunday after Trinity or 11th Sunday in/of Trinitytide (I think you can say that haha). If someone is calling this the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, then they've confused their counting and are mixing up the names based on which Sunday they count from. Is there a particular church out there that you saw this name with? I haven't seen any that confused the dating myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are some since both countings are used in the ACNA.

Glad you liked it!

Very true! They couldn't even view the face of Moses after he had been in the presence of God and carried the glory down the mountain. And here, the Father gives the gift of seeing Christ's glory revealed in as much as they could receive it at that time. The Transfiguration is an absolutely astounding moment in Jesus' ministry and a preparation for these three disciples to go forth with the message of who Jesus is and by being who he is, that he has thus accomplished the work the Father sent him to do.

Thank you. Here in the United States, Anglican usually means conservative and traditional. Historically, our branch of Christianity, was called The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, now simply called The Episcopal Church. When conservatives and traditionally minded believers began leaving the Episcopal Church, they took on the name Anglican to distinguish themselves from Episcopalians. However, Anglican is synonymous with the Church of England which has significant problems and has moved more and more toward liberalism. So, Anglican on a worldwide scale can still mean liberal Christian, but the Global South is also a stalwart place of faithfulness within Anglicanism. And we in the states who left the Episcopal Church starting in the early 2000s would not be here without the support of Global South bishops desiring to see the reemergence of faithful biblical Anglicans in North America. Thanks for stopping by and watching and checking out the website. Have a blessed day!

Those are two true things right there! That's another video I need to start thinking through, the connection between Scripture as the word of God and Jesus as the Word of God. I'm sure there are already explanations out there, but still one I need to think about making.