Atheist coming back to god, picking a church.

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Atheist coming back to god, picking a church. Christanon 06/25/18 (Mon) 07:53:35 d596a1 No.665523

Hello, I am an American who was baptized Episcopalian and wants to return to the faith. I have noticed it is very liberal and I was thinking I would join an ACNA church. Should I also look into the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter? I really want to stay Anglican as my family has been that for hundreds of years and I want to keep tradition.

Christanon 06/25/18 (Mon) 08:22:13 52313e No.665529

>>665523

First of all, lovely to hear that you desire to embrace Christ. Welcome home, brother.

Secondly, you must be aware that what matters is not tradition even if it may be for several hundred years old, but the truth. So when you decide to join a denominations, decide not by what your family was following, but which denomination preserved truth and original faith of Christ. Study Bible and look at what denominations are teaching and then decide. If you will just join a church for community, you will merely be deceiving yourself.

Christanon 06/25/18 (Mon) 09:19:36 a8713b No.665539

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>>665523

Happy days and blessings to you.

Stay anglican and just be trad as possible. Read early church history and the patristics.

I would suggest orthodoxy or roman catholicism, but if you feel at home in the Anglican Church then you'll be fine.

Christanon 06/25/18 (Mon) 09:31:08 510066 No.665543

>>665523

the Continuing Anglican movement which ACNA is a part of, or look into Anglo-Catholicism.

The Catholic alternative would be the Ordinariate and the Orthodox alternative would be Western Rite churches who have some Anglicans who joined under them

Christanon 06/25/18 (Mon) 09:58:42 d9fd7c No.665548

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>>665523

>as my family has been that for hundreds of years and I want to keep tradition.

To quote the Bible:

>Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

Just because your family has been Anglican for hundreds of years doesn't make it not heretical. Remember, for a thousand of years before that, it was Catholic, and for the thousands before, it was pagan. The three can't be true at the same time.

That said, as long as your traditions can be used to glorify God and in submission to his commandments, they aren't wrong. Jesus never commanded anything against all kind of traditions (imagine the absurds that would arise if doing anything traditional would be a sin) - it's putting them in place of commandments of God that is wrong, not traditions themselves. So although "staying Anglican" is a tradition inherently opposed to God's commandment to stay in His Church, the the various traditions connected with Anglicanism aren't - hence the existence of the Ordinariate.

So, in other words, the Ordinariate is the best option - you join the Church whose history stretches back to Christ and the Apostles, outside which Church there is no salvation - and you keep the Anglican traditions, because they are genuinely good and able to glorify God.

Christanon 06/26/18 (Tue) 01:39:55 d596a1 No.665904

>>665548

The ordinariate church is 1 hour and 30 mins away and potentially not even one in my state if I end up moving soon. Are anglo catholic churches like the same thing?

Christanon 06/26/18 (Tue) 01:50:50 76c502 No.665917

Where you go isn't up to you or to us, but to the Lord alone. You don't pick a church, the Lord guides you to it.

Pray for guidance and read scriptures, and apologetics and you will come to know the Truth. Not the truth as it seems to you (i.e. "i like this denomination most" or "these traditions are compatible with my upbringing and cultural background") but THE Truth as it is and always has been.

I will however say that Anglicans are manifest heretics who have abondoned the faith for modern convenience, and even the Anglo-Catholic/high church Anglicans are tainted by that same leaven. Stay away.

Christanon 06/26/18 (Tue) 02:17:37 444769 No.665933

>>665904

The Ordinariate is in communion with the Roman Catholic Church and was created in 2009 to allow Anglo-Catholics and High Church Anglicans to enter into the Catholic Church while holding onto elements of their liturgy, kind of like how Byzantine Catholics hold onto some tenets of their Eastern faith

Anglo-Catholics are not in communion with Rome and are Protestants who practice a more liturgical and 'high' form of worship compared to 'Low church' Anglicans