The Heavenly Worship of Orthodox Christianity | Fr. Zechariah Lynch
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Fr. Zechariah Lynch is the priest at Archangel Michael Orthodox Church in Pueblo, Colorado.
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So many Orthodox Fathers have such an amazing presence. Often, you can pick up their reverence and fear of God through the screen. Father Lynch is certainly one of these wonderful priests, what a blessing it is to be able to hear him talk from across the world! Love and appreciation from Denmark 🇩🇰
I absolutely agree. God bless!
Same from Bahrain. 🇧🇭
It’s the prayer
God gives grace
I totally agree
About a year ago I reached out to Fr. Zechariah, asking if he could recommend a parish where I was living. He did, so I visited on a weekday and met with the priest, who Fr. Zechariah knew from seminary; it was my first experience in an Orthodox Church. It was amazing. Coming from hyper-charismatic Evangelicalism, it was a shock - a beautiful, wonderful, awe-inspiring shock.
Through what can only be described as divine intervention, I found myself at a Russian parish a couple weeks later as it was closer to my home. I began attending in July and was Baptized last Friday into the Orthodox Church, receiving the Holy Eucharist on Lazurus Saturday.
I do thank God for Fr. Zechariah, he helped me begin my journey into the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Glory to God!
So happy for you. ❤
@@waynerogers5485 Christ is risen!
So happy for you
Such a sweet and humble man. Christ is among us. Glory to God!
I'm a protestant really debating converting to Orthdoxy. Your channel is very helpful, thank you.
God bless you on your spiritual journey!
Are there any orthodox churches near you? If so, you should contact the priest and talk with them. It's what I did.
The Church is awaiting you with open arms.
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All priests featured on this channel are an inspiration, but I´m drawn to Father Lynch - there is a sincerity, humility, and honesty in his words, that touch me deeply. Thanks for sharing your words of wisdom with us.
Call no man on earth father.... except these guys cause they tell me they are holy!
@@randomCHELdad learn proper bible hermeneutics
@@randomCHELdad you dont think Orthodoxy, in its rich 2000 year long history, has an answer to this?
@@randomCHELdad can we call our biological father, father? or do we have to say dad? But wait those two words mean the same thing.
@@randomCHELdad and Paul says we have many guides but few fathers? hm. Paul must be wrong i guess
Father Zechariah, every word was valuable, but u must thank you for your words about St. Seraphim in Russia under the soviets as well as your words about the situation of the Church in Ukraine and those who bravely continue to speak truth such as Met. Onoufry. A time of great suffering for the Truth.
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I love this man. Thank you 🙏.
Me too ❤
Amazing to think you went to Ukraine with your parents that were evangelical Christian going to Ukraine as missionaries. God works in mysterious ways! Now you are an Orthodox Priest!! We have to realize, God uses all things to guide and direct our lives:) Thank you Fr for your presence on Utube! This will reach thousands of people!🙏❤️
When worship becomes likes and dislikes it becomes self help with Jesus… WOW!! He said that perfectly
Thank you for bringing back Fr. Zechariah. He comes across as such a humble and compassionate man in these videos and it's very inspiring.
I’m exploring orthodoxy and have watched SOOOO many videos about orthodoxy and this is easily one of the best. Thank you 🙏🏼☦️
I hope to be as faithful and humble as this man
Thank you Fr. Zechariah for all you're wisdom, humility, meekness, love for Christ and truth for the Orthodox faith. Truly a God fearing man who we are grateful for. God bless you and your family!
God bless you Father and God bless Roots of Orthodoxy!!!
I love Fr Lynch. He sheds tears whenever he speaks about Christ, which is very touching. I wish I could visit him and his church some day 🙏
Thank you father and Roots of Orthodoxy 🙏🏽I enjoyed this video very much.
God bless you father you and your family ☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️
Love Father Lynch! He has an excellent blog. ❤
I find this channel so useful. I grow up in an Orthodox Church in Ethiopia. As a grow older I had a lot of questions and since questions where not encouraged, I joined other faith, explored different cultures and faith but deep inside I always felt some void. When I got married and have kids I needed to decide what faith I want to teach my kids and that is when I decided to come back to orthodox. But the challenge has been finding good teachings like this channel to teach my husband and children who don’t speak Amarich. Thank you for this!
Greetings Fr. Lynch my new friend. So much respect for your roll. Everyone should visit the humble parish in Pueblo.
I love this channel so much. These holy guys are so infectious with their energy and knowledge, after a week I was already adapting to their calmness in real life🙏
Христос Воскресе!
Vaistinu Vaskrse Hristos!
I needed to hear this right at this moment. Bless you Father and thank you, Lord!
Thank you for this!!
Reading the book now. Truly beautiful and a blessing, just as all of Father’s writings are. A blessed Pascha to all this week!
Thank you for the insight.❤
Thankkkk uuuuuu forrr everything ur doing , here in Ethiopia , grew up as a Protestant ,but u guyss ❤❤
My gosh that passage at the end almost had me in tears. Such a beautiful insight to Christianity.
Thank you for bringing us these interviews. This is exactly what I need.
Amen! Bless you Father
Don’t see the first book mentioned in the description but for others: St. Dimitry of Rostov: Spiritual Guidance on the Christian Path
God bless everyone
Father thank you so much for this edifying speech i love you so much god bless you ☦💚 in christ
A truly stoic finish to this interview
I love you brother beloved ☦️
There are so many ways people have been living a beautiful life. This is certainly one of them. Thank you so much for sharing with the rest of us. So happy to kearn your vocation allows you to have been married with a family too. Joyous. Your story is very interesting
I sent Father Zachariah a message on Facebook after watching this video but then realized his last post was in like 2013 so I doubt he’ll see what I said there lol. I won’t retype the whole message here cuz it was a long one but I just want to say this. Thank you for this video. It really resonated with me and experiences I have going on in my life right now. I’ve been exploring Christianity heavily recently and this video helped confirm that orthodoxy just makes sense to me. Thank you for this video and god bless you 🙏
Try his Instagram! It is @inkless.pen.blog
Lovely, Father.
Book purchased from Amazon.
Thank you father. 🙏🏻☦️
He sounds like H. Jon Benjamin. Voice of Bobs Burgers and Dr. Katz son.
@28:50 Challenging one's ego so that it is not about what we like or dislike? I came to that conclusion three and a half years ago. A corollary of that conclusion is that people would sooner eat broken glass than conceding to do something that they do not like with someone whom they “love”, like going to a concert of classical music.
Thank you and God bless you father 🙏
Thank you for all these great uploads! Blessed Pascha to you all!
Thanks!
Thank you! God bless
Thank you
Could you please enable notifications so I can know when you go live? Thank you!
Христос воскресе!
Ваистину воскресе!
Wisdom is the fear of God
IC XC NIKA ☦️
This is such an astonishing watch, so profound. Anyone know the name of the book he read referencing to a teacher? Thank you in advance:)
можно сказать, recycling - это от сатаны😂
There are different perspectives. Here, in Eastern Europe, we have a different view of the Orthodox Church - strong national-ethnic ties, entanglement in politics, communist apparatus, cooperation of clergy with the political police, denunciations, currently support for Putin's policy, support for military aggression, alliance of throne and altar, caesaropapism level high... Not only the beauty/correctness of worship is important - "you will recognize them by their fruits..."
Ironic isn’t it? I’m assuming most of the orthodox congregants in these European countries are actual authentic Christian’s though, even if their hierarchy is compromised
@@JunkSock It's not ironic. it's despair. An example of a different perspective is this - most evangelical Protestants in Europe believe that the USA is a holy country, because so many people are born again there ;) Joining the church is a conscious submission to authority. The lack of fruit is a normal defensive reaction against this.
@@za_a_nawet_przeciw274 had to come back to this reply a couple times to think on it but I think I have where you’re coming from. Haven’t stepped into a European church or any denomination so I’m not familiar with how much work a local Orthodox Church would be putting in compared to a local Protestant. Interesting post, also hadn’t thought about the intentionality of choosing the state-church when there are alternatives available. Cheers
Is there a big difference between Russian & Greek Orthodox?
Exactly the same dogma, no difference. The differences are in liturgy, hymns. All Eastern Orthodox Churches, Greek, Russian, Antiochean, Serbian.... are exactly the same in terms of dogma. Differences in language, hymns...only.
This man is 50?? Dang
For Sarphim, to say that the only reason that the sun still rises and the trees bear fruit is because the Orthodox liturgy continues, is rather presumtuous. The bible tells of God's motivations in that regard, when Abraham was pleading with God to spare Sodom & Gomorrah, and God said He would only say His hand if there were any righteous there. (Currently there are righteous Christians all over the world other than in the Orthodox Church)
Also, God is long suffering towards mankind, and He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance
I have been a Greek Orthodox and lately I have been challenge by my church when i ask why do we pray to the mother of Our Lord JESUS by calling her o holy mother of God save us no answer only one priest here in Phoenix where I live told me it is wrongly written
Dear brother/sister in Christ. To enlighten your mind please see my response below:
1. No one is closer to our savior Jesus Christ more than his Holy mother, the Virgin Mary. She is the pure vessel and is virgin before and after giving birth.
2. No one is worthy than her to intercede for us. She knows her son more than anyone else. He lived with her for 30 years before starting his teaching.
3. She is the pillar of our faith. So if you don't ask for her intercession, you are missing out of her blessing.
4. She is the mother of all generations, Luke 1:46-56.
5. Please read John 2:1-11, wedding at Cana Galilee which clearly shows whatever she asks for us, Christ will give us according to his plan. At the wedding the groom didn't ask her for wine but she knew that they ran out of wine and asked her son, and he responded to her intercession in a profound way.
6. Christ while he was on the cross, he cared for his loving mother who was grieving while looking at her son going through excruciating agony and pain for our salvation. So, he gave her to his beloved disciple, John.
7. She had played a great role for our salvation. So who would be praised more than her after God.
8. She is very humble, unlike Eve, the Holy Virgin Mary called herself maidservant but Eve ate the fruit to be like God which made them to get kicked out of Garden Eden.
My beloved friend, please read Orthodox books about her. She is so sweet and very loving. She knows our challenges and asks her son before we ask him. She is the only human being who defied any form of sin as the Holy Spirit guarded her, she had a free will like all of us, but remained pure and holy and was found worthy to bear God on womb. The heavens and earth can not hold him but the Holy Virgin Mary carried him on her womb for 9 months. How beautiful is this !!!
Oh, I wish I could say more about her!!!! But the books in the world won't be enough to write about her. I would also recommend you read the book of Revelation, St. John talks about her in a mystical way.
May she open your mind.
Sisterly love from Eritrean and Ethiopian Orthodox Christian believer.
You fell to the typical Protestant slur that is result of their ignorance of the ancient Christianity. St. Paul, for example, has no problem with saving people (verses below). We all know that he can't save anybody on his own, but he is a God's vessel, used by God to perform Church's work on earth on His behalf. Through Grace of God, Saints are our helpers, like those 4 men who carried paralyzed man through the roof before lowering him in front of the Lord (Mark 2,3-11).
(Rom 11,13) For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if by any means I MAY provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and SAVE SOME OF THEM.
(1 Corinthians 9,22) to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, THAT I MIGHT by all means SAVE SOME.
Is this Catholic / Orthodox Liturgy, what is called Spiritual Worship ? Is this what Lord Yeshua taught us ? Is it what the Apostles taught ? Let us together examine the Scripture and see whether we can accept that ?
🔹All believers agree that the Jewish temple in Jerusalem was not destroyed until 70 AD and there were numerous Synagogues in Israel until that time. Is there any biblical reference that any of those Jewish believers of those days as having worshipped Lord Yeshua in this manner ? (Check Mathew 28:9,17; Luke 24:52;) Did the early believers received the Holy Spirit when they were worshipping God in this manner ? (Check Acts 1:12-15; Then they returned to Jerusalem...when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying;... All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers ....In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) Acts 2:1,4; When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place....And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
🔹What were Gentiles doing when they received the Holy Spirit ? Acts 11:1; Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God >>> Acts 11:15; As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning >>>>
SO WHAT IS SPIRITUAL WORSHIP ?
✅ Jn 4:23-24; The hour is coming, and is now here, when the TRUE WORSHIPERS will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him MUST WORSHIP in spirit and truth.” >>>> ❤️ Romans 12:1; I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, HOLY and ACCEPTABLE to God, which is YOUR SPIRITUAL WORSHIP.
🔹 What is the meaning of presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice ? What is the result of Spiritual Worship ? >>> 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
🔸Do you genuinely believe that you are Sanctified after these kind of Spiritual worship? Who can do it ? Can these mortal men in long attires, (Jude 1:19; devoid of the Spirit) with a cross ➕ in their hand do that ? 1 Thessalonians 5:24; He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it >>> Acts 5:32; The Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him >>> Phil 3:3; For we are the circumcision (circumcised in the Heart, baptized by the Holy Spirit) , ..... who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh ( no confidence in these type of worship)
🔹When the Holy Spirit dwells in your Soul, you becomes 1 Cor 3:16; Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? Rom 8:15; you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” Rom 8:27; the Spirit intercedes for the saints ( Saints are those Sanctified, who received the Holy Spirit) Rom 8:26; Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
🔹Instead of seeking how to receive the Holy Spirit to dwell in our Soul, in our heart, to intercede for us to God, Why are you going to these man made buildings and seeking the help of men devoid of Spirit to intercede to God for your behalf.
🔹Do you want to know the reasons behind these practices ? Just fact check your religious practices (be it any denominations) and then read Heb 10:29; Mat 28:20; Titus 2:10; and then ask these following questions to yourselves:-
(a) Have you trampled or observed ?
(b) Have you gone beyond what is written ?
(c) Have you received the teaching of the Apostles (Heb 13:7; Jn 10:20;) or that of the so called ‘church fathers’ ?
🔹 Seven Times the Lord has warned us ?Rev 2:7; He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.>> Rev 2:11; He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches >> Rev 2:17; He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches >> Rev 2:29; He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches >> Rev 3:6; He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ >> Rev 3:13; He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ >> Rev 3:22; He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
🔹What is that the Spirit saying to the Churches ? What shall we do ? Listen to all that the Lord Yeshua Messiah had spoken and obey all that Lord Yeshua commanded us to do. The Apostles have explained everything what the Lord taught. Obey them, imitate their faith,(Heb 13:7;) for all of them were Jewish turned Christians/Disciples (Acts 11:.26;) They were never followers of the religion called Christianity.
🔹What I wrote is based on my understanding of the Sacred Writings. You may not agree with my comments. If you don’t agree with what I wrote, let us reason ourselves.Please share your comments. Don’t forget to quote the relevant citations while doing so.
Why do Orthordox Priests have big beards? Is it compulsory?
It is customary (perhaps recommended) but is up to their bishop.
Because without a beard, the bread in the toaster will never transform into toast
Men of God have beards, because God had a beard.
It's a custom and a (small t) tradition. Most do, but some don't.
@@nickolaskara3723
It's actually against the Canons for a Priest to shave his Beard.
Some Bishops bent this Canon in the 20th Century so that the Orthodox could look more like Protestants and Roman Catholics.
I love everything he said, even as a Presbyterian, but-
Regarding the recent incident about the shirtless man opening the conference.... that was NOT a Protestant event. That was a Charismatic Evangelical Modern Contemporary Big Church style event.
Sorry but I don't understand your comment. If the charismatic Evangelical is not Protestant, what is it?
Charismatic Evangelicalism is an offshoot of Lutheran Pietism.
Why aren’t these episodes as Netflix series rather than the amount of crap that’s shown there
God is the source of sin because God is the source of man and the source of all creation. It's really indisputable. There would be no sin if God had not made man capable of sinning and gave man the opportunity to sin. And God knew from eternity that this is how things would unfold, and so God chose to create a world where sin would exist and thrive. We are responsible for our actions, to be sure, but it's poor theology when many Christians attempt to completely disassociate God from all the bad which occurs on earth.
Why would you pray to a man when you can go directly to the throne of God yourself. This is religion not a relationship with Jesus christ.
Prayer to a Saint is not the same as to God. Just as if I were to come to you and say “I pray thee help me to understand or pray for me.”
We are entered into a community that is the body of Christ, His church. We first and foremost go to Christ and yet we also have this beautiful community to help and love us through their prayers and any work God permits them to do through His Grace.
Sir, you lost me at, ” I’m translating and asking my wife, what do you think he means?” So you don’t know yet your translating? That leaves room for A LOT of error.
How you gonna translate and you don’t know? WTF!
Because like any language there are things that Native Speakers and Readers are gonna pick up that those who have learned it haven't.
It's probably local Colloquial Stuff. Nothing major.
Thanks!
Thank you! God bless