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Ben Waegerle's avatar

It would be really interested to hear you dialogue with Dr. Gavin Ortlund with this material. As a Baptist theologian, he really tries to emphasize the rigorist viewpoint as the Canonical, Patristic Orthodox position- all to make the point that, despite what his charitable Orthodox interlocutors suggest, our “true ecclesiology” is exclusivism, and force us to say that he and all non-Orthodox are outside of the Church and therefore unsaved.

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John's avatar

Thank you Benjamin for being a counterpoint to the online Orthodox types on this issue. I recall experiencing great stress over this topic when I was received into the Orthodox Church because I was reading material from the Orthodox Ethos at the time. After some prayer and contemplation I discovered that the stress and turmoil in my heart was not the peace that Jesus gives, and stopped consuming any material from that website. Best to avoid them completely in my opinion.

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