Not entirely true.
Thanks for the link. Do you by chance have more of the article? Interesting that you mention “justification”. Were the difficulties settled in the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification?
Not really. It helped show a lot of similarities but, at least as far as confessional Lutherans are concerned, I don’t think so.
Sounds to me that you’re like a lot of PNCC members. Quite frankly, it isn’t hard to imagine a PNCC parish simply collapsing (I don’t mean physically of course) and its remaining members going to their local Roman parish.
I can empathize with that. I was there for several years. I finally found myself being too stubborn to be taught, I just surrendered. Things have never been better in matters of Faith. I’m not going to lie, thou, I still struggle with several teachings, but in with a different attitude.
I have an opinion.I second that lol.
ACNA is a great bunch of Anglicans but they really have not be around long enough for me to form an opinion of the ACNA as a whole.
My opinion is that, for a traditionalist, esp. Anglo-Catholic sort of Anglican, which describes me, the ACNA is a curate’s egg. Though my Continuing Anglican group, and several others, maintain cautious contact with them, until they get their act together on female ordination, they may go their own way.
Perhaps a better question would be: Where does the idea come from that the LCMS and ACNA are going to enter into a full communion agreement? I’ve never seen any real basis for it, so I would guess it’s from the same kind of thinking as the When-will-Orthodox-and-Rome-be-in-full-communion? mantra.
I have heard such talks from LCMS pastors and ACNA priest but sure we can go with your question. Have a great day. lol
From what I have heard, full communion is not part of the discussion
The ELCA and TEC are already in full altar and pulpit communion. As for AS, the Lutheran confessions speak in favor of it.
Right. I have heard the same in my Lutheran circles.
This kind of goes with the above. We are in full communion with the ELCA but there is still a divide among the faithful on certain issues.
Thank you.
The issue of succession was, somehow, resolved as a result of the “Call to Common Mission”, signed between the two church bodies. Since then, as I recall, Anglican bishops are involved as at least one of the three bishops involved in ordination (EvangelCatholic, or Pastor Gary, correct me if I am wrong). Similarly, this was done also, as I understand it, in the Porvoo Agreement in Europe.
See that’s what I thought but talking to the ELCA pastor, that fills in for our priest when needed, I got a different take. I will talk with him son and how to clarify. Thanks
Even if a given ELCA pastor doesn’t understand AS in that sense. I still don’t understand how that works.