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Hey Jon, I've read several of your posts during my time here and I was wondering if you've considered conversion to the CC. If so, what's stopping you?
Jon, I pray that our Lord is bestowing blessings upon you and yours. I am still trying to discern the Will of Christ in regards to the ALCC. It is difficult with a daughter attending Concordia University, Ann Arbor pursuing a Lutheran Teachers Diploma and my wife who is very content at our Parish. I have had 1 LCMS Pastor who has encouraged me to follow the "still small voice".
Jon, now that the ALCC is entering the Roman Church in the same way as the Anglicans, I may not be able to seek ordination within it. I guess it will depend on the timing. As a married man it may not be possible. Could be that Christ ha work for me in the LCMS. May His Will be done.
Jon, I also love the Martin Luther quote. I am LCMS but am really considering that the ALCC may be closer to what Luther intended when he posted for discussion the Thesis.
I am just getting around to looking at this part of CAF... sorry for the delay. Actually, I do better in responding to e-mail to my home address rather than to this one... here it is:
Evangelical Catholic (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod)
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"It would be easy to fill many pages with the declarations of the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and of her great theologians, who, without a dissenting voice, repudiate this doctrine [consubstantiation]...