God totally used that church to keep my faith afloat. Beautiful people. I may not agree with some of their theology with where I am now, but I can truly look back, and thank God they were part of my sanctification.

@lekat525

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for a balanced perspective ♥️

@jackshannon777

2 ай бұрын

Great to hear your gratitude for this church. Where do you find disagreements with their theology now?

I was raised and ordained in the CEC. I have nothing but gratitude for the formation that i received in the midst of authentic and intentional convergence. Though I am no longer a part of the CEC, they are an important witness to the greater church internationally.

@jackshannon777

2 ай бұрын

Where are you now?

Yes!! Thank you so much for making this video. I was recently confirmed in the ICCEC last year and God opened many doors in my life to make that happen. Honestly having come from a background of constant church hopping it truly feels like ive come home.

I’m glad you’re getting around to these groups. Would love to see a more in depth look at the Evangelical Orthodox Church

Thanks for these informative videos. I'm so interested in religions & the beliefs of those religions.

There are also Charismatic congregations within the Church of England, as I attended a service at one a few year back, while at a conference!

PLEASE do one on those charismatic Orthodox you mentioned as well. Short and longform videos

Thank you for this informative video.

Born in raised in the CEC. I am one year off from being as old as it is. My dad is a priest in Georgia. When I got married I was away from it for a while, in the denomination my husband was in, but we have made our way back to the CEC and go to the cathedral in GA. LOVE the CEC!

@legacyandlegend

3 ай бұрын

I'm just curious, do you go to the cathedral in Sharpsburg, Georgia?

@xJessiGirlProx

2 ай бұрын

@@legacyandlegend yes

@legacyandlegend

2 ай бұрын

@@xJessiGirlProx I watch their services on youtube sometimes. Maybe I've seen you in the pews. Great church.

@xJessiGirlProx

2 ай бұрын

@@legacyandlegend I sing with them most Sundays so you’ve likely seen me. It is a great church, I love it. I’m glad you’re enjoying the services. Do you go to a CEC church or anywhere, yourself?

@legacyandlegend

2 ай бұрын

@xJessiGirlProx I wish. I don't have a CEC church in my hometown. I'm trying to start one with the help of a few priests in the CEC church in Knoxville, Tennessee. It hasn't been very productive so far.

Hi, can u make a video abt the romanian evanghelical church, I'm an Orthodox Christian and I have some romanian evanghelical friends and I'm really confused abt they're beliefes to be honest?

@maxzation

9 ай бұрын

I am a romanian pentecostal(but I like the CEC from this video more). Evangelicals in Romania are Pentecostals, Baptists, Adventists and Plymouth Brethren

Would love to hear you do some small feature on Vanguard Presbytery, a very new but prospering offshoot of PCA and OPC...the history of it is very interesting.

@johntobey1558

Жыл бұрын

I am a member of a PCA church in Bucks County Pennsylvania amd would also like to know more about this too.

@ReadyToHarvest

Жыл бұрын

I mentioned Vanguard back around the time they got started in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2qtq7SNdcyTesY.html I don't plan to do much more unless they grow significantly or have some other events of note. They have now taken the name of Vanguard Presbyterian Church.

@shannoncaeley

Жыл бұрын

@@johntobey1558 I'm a member of a Vanguard church in San Antonio Texas. Came from an OPC church that was going downhill due to poor leadership, and safe to say I have never been part of a more alive body of believers, who are all passionate about the truths of Scripture. You should definitely look into Vanguard, it is an incredible Presbytery.

@shannoncaeley

Жыл бұрын

@@ReadyToHarvest I had not realized you'd mentioned it! That's wonderful! Thanks for directing me to that video :)

@CDC39A

Жыл бұрын

@@shannoncaeley I have heard from several in the OPC that certain presbyteries are falling flat, becoming extremely politicized amongst other troubling things.

Can you make a video about cowboy churches. Are they just nondenominational Christian churches that have a western theme or is there more to it then just that.

@adaptercrash

Жыл бұрын

They have a get your own, same with the early mormons.. there's a whole bunch of cowboy churches in canada.

Can you do a video on the LDS church?

@sysamanthahopeang6268

4 ай бұрын

He has ❤

Can you do a video on the Neocatechumenal way in the Catholic Church

Wow cool informative channel!

Can you do a video on the Anglican Province of America?

If you could talk more about the evangelicals joining the Antiochian Chruch?

Interesting.

For clarity: the Evangelical Orthodox Church was received almost entirely into the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of America, which is the American archdiocese of the ancient Antiochian jurisdiction, under the Patriarch of Antioch (where "they were first called Christians").

Though interesting and appreciated, this is the 6th video dealing with Anglicans in as many months. Why not equally focus on other denominations? I have requested a video on Lutherans who profess evangelical-catholic beliefs similar to Anglo-Catholics but to no avail and have provided information to Joshua. Strange preoccupation with just one Christian group.

Have you explored Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Puritans, or Shakers?

@Hark1677

Жыл бұрын

He’s gone over denominations with roots from the Puritans. As for Mormons, JW’s, Shakers, I don’t think they are in the orthodoxy of Christianity.

@thursoberwick1948

Жыл бұрын

@@Hark1677 He has done JWs.

@sysamanthahopeang6268

4 ай бұрын

Yes he did LDS Mormon and JW

I used to know Acb Adler. He was like a prophetic xray machine

All kinds of craziness in its hybrid format are forming everyday. Next thing I'd like to see whether there's a monastic, charismatic and evangelicals are forming (Trappist monks + charismatic + evangelical).

@davidstout6051

6 ай бұрын

John Michael Talbot did that 40 years ago or so. His later albums reflect this combination. I personally like them but everyone has their own preferences.

When you see the red and purple hats and christmas trees it's another version of mystery babylon.

Amazing how many christians faithfully disagree with each other in all matters of faith. Even the definition of god, christian, and salvation differ wildly from each other that every denomination might as well be its own religion.

I did find out that Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia helped found a Convergence church.

Sounds a bit like the stuff ageing hippies loved to put on to sort of show that they are spirit-filled, reborn, shaker Protestant types too. There are genuine Charismatics in the Church, an oddly large number of them, but they do not sling a mean guitar or need to bob and hippy-hippy shake to demonstrate it - they just are .. it. One finds the real stuff gently, yet firmly, reforming themselves into the image of Christ, and thus allowing Him space to bring others to know Him and to love Him .. as well (it is a true gift of gifts). Keep the Faith; tell the truth, shame the devil, and let the demons shriek. God bless. ;o)

Anyone here can type in: " How many versions of Christianity are there ....? • very soon after Jesus's passing, the Apostle Paul had to explain, at 1st Corinthians 14:33 " God is not the author of confusion " There's more versions of Christianity than the versions of Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. Each of the variations of what is " the totally true and inspired way " in each person's faith, are practiced by sincere people who prayed for guidance from their deity to find a true way of worship. Each of millions of these sincere people believe that they each have found " the true way " God answered each one of these people's prayers with very different versions of what is actually true.

@thursoberwick1948

Жыл бұрын

Hinduism has thousands of localised versions and at least thirty million deities.

@stefandavenport1588

Жыл бұрын

@@thursoberwick1948 Each religion evolves subsequent beliefs and has branches, all believed in by sincere people •• they all believe that they have the " One True Religion ™. The same is true about Christianity.

@thursoberwick1948

Жыл бұрын

@@stefandavenport1588 Kind of. I've been to multiple denominations and a lot of the time they are different flavours rather than sects with a burning hatred for one another.

@stefandavenport1588

Жыл бұрын

@@thursoberwick1948 Of course they aren't all vitriolic, as that's no longer socially acceptable in western democratic culture, that now accepts freedom of religion. People reject the Inquisition, an also reject the Massachusetts Bay Colony's practices as that was a Theocracy. They're just different and opposite versions of what is supposed to be the " one true worship way "

I really want to join that church 😂

I wonder what confession looks like in Protestant churches like this one.

@richardsaintjohn8391

Жыл бұрын

Optional. Priest gives absolution at Mass

Well, they really did some picking and choosing when they set up their sect.

They can deny it all they want, if they're using the Anglican articles, they're Anglican. A bit like Methodist, (from my philosophical point of view) all Methodist are Anglican, but all Anglican are not Methodist.

very weird blending of churches

If any Protestant of any denomination can give one single verse that says you are saved by “Faith Alone”, I’ll quit the Catholic Church and join yours. Who’s up to the challenge? I’d also like to see a verse that says the greatest thing you do is have “Faith Alone”.

@thetraditionalist

Жыл бұрын

Ephesians 2:8

@samuelfaint7841

Жыл бұрын

Hey brother! There’s so many to choose from, here’s a few that I believe are pretty clear: Galatians 2:16 “Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.” Romans 4:1-5 ESV “What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes inhim who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,” Romans 11:6 ESV “But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace”

@PokerMonkey

Жыл бұрын

@@thetraditionalist Sorry, not seeing the word “Alone” in there. Great verse however, along with 9, and 10. Try again.

@trentonnaylor7437

Жыл бұрын

As a protestant I believe grace is through faith and not works per ephesians 2:8-9, but the faith that is being talked about is a faith that produces fruit and works. It is said 3 times in the Bible that Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness, Genesis 15:6, Romans 4:3, and James 2:23, and that righteousness and faith showed when he was obediant to God. If grace was through works wouldn’t that be working your way to heaven? I’m not asking you to quit the Catholic church, but please understand that salvation is through faith that bears fruit and not works.

@thetraditionalist

Жыл бұрын

@@trentonnaylor7437 yes

These interpretations come from men who broke away from the truth, they use their own private interpretation and set up their own rules 4 beliefs. Who would care to hear about the imitations, instead of the real thing one holy Apostolic and Universal Church from the beginning of time!

@TheJoeschmoe777

10 ай бұрын

Not sure what tradition you're from, but the ICCEC is in communion with the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican traditions and we have people from these different churches worship with us all the time. Come visit us my friend! :)

@legacyandlegend

3 ай бұрын

​@@TheJoeschmoe777 I didn't know the CEC was in communion with catholics, orthodox, and anglicans. I thought they were just similar to them and had apostolic succession from an orthodox line...

I fail to see what the draw is to the Charismatic movement. It's garbage!

@thursoberwick1948

Жыл бұрын

Believing in Christ rather than just going through the motions and having woolly theology.

Jesus created ONE Church, as between zero and 2. In a letter written by St. Ignatius of Antioch, a great Catholic Bishop and Church Father, he called the Church "Catholic" in 107AD, meaning Universal. All Protestant denominations are man made, woman made, and in some cases, Satan made. Come home to the real Church created by Jesus, which also gave the Bible to the World. In case you don't know, there was no Bible until the late 4th Century when the Pope and Bishops held the Council of Rome in 382AD. That is how we got the 27 books of the New Testament you all read today (and claim to interpret), and it was combined with the 46 books of the Jewish Old Testament, to give the Bible to the World. You're welcome.

@marriage4life893

Жыл бұрын

There are definitely contributions the Roman church has made that we can all be grateful for, such as helping to create a canon of scripture. With that said, we should also be thankful to the Jewish people for preserving the law, prophets, and writings for the world to have access to a well. This is how we know that Pascha is on the evening of the 14th, the Sabbath is on the seventh day, and holy week is actually Pascha followed by the week of Unleavened Bread. It's amazing to see how God used so many peoples to play a part in preserving faith. Ecclesiastes 12:13

@mscatinaclaytor

Жыл бұрын

Jesus had nothing to do with the Catholic Church because he was born Jewish and the Catholic Church is not mentioned in the bible that is Catholic Church doctrine

@claryp1509

Жыл бұрын

Catholics aren’t Christian. Worshipping Mary, other “saints”, adding to the Bible, turning Jesus into a wafer to be worshipped and eaten (cannibalism), and so many other things make Catholics unsaved.

@PokerMonkey

Жыл бұрын

@@mscatinaclaytor Where did you get the idea that for something to be true, it must be “written in the Bible”? There was no Bible the first 400 years.

@PokerMonkey

Жыл бұрын

@@claryp1509 Funny how you KNOW, as a NON-Catholic, what Catholics “believe”, since NOTHING you wrote is true.

You can't have a smorgasbord of different religions oh, you have to come back into the church and accept the truth Church, admit that you were wrong and follow this succession of St Peter like Mary the Mother of God who appeared at Bayside New York for about 25 years, said not to have separated brethren, upon your altars, she also said if you're a Catholic and join a cult religion, you could lose your soul and if you're a Catholic and join a Protestant religion or other Christian religion orthodox, then you will have a lower place in heaven, no bologna, the real thing the universal Christian Church.!!!

Ah, so I see that no dissenting voices are allowed. That’s so typical of you people.