Lukas Adolfsson
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Swedish Use Lutheran 🇸🇪 | Ecumenical Catholic | Aspiring Parson, thus Theology Undergrad | Ps. 34:6
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I respect you a fair bit, Father, but this simply comes across as cruel. Why would you, who claim to defend traditional Christian values, say or promote such tragedy? I’m simply baffled.
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The Swedish Mass, 🇸🇪 as illustrated in 1954, with photos. A 🧵 from one of the peaks of the Catholic Revival in this country.
Let’s take a look! 1/11
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Some of the responses to this are so uncharitable it’s just sad. As I posted recently, we Christians, regardless of conviction on this or other controversial issues, *must* be able to engage in civil and humble conversation. Mockery and demeaning are grossly unproductive.
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In the Church of Sweden, whenever we say the name of Jesus Christ during service, we bow. During prayers, during Creeds, sometimes when singing. I’ve read it’s a Swedish thing but I cant confirm it. Does anyone else do this in their churches?
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“I would rather drink blood with the Pope than mere wine with the Zwinglians.”
- Dr. Martin Luther
I've seen some Lutherans anathematize Baptists lately, specifically to pander to Papists. Your forefathers disagree. Walther, for one, acknowledged all "sects" who held to sola fide as corrupted, yet actual churches. In contrast, he rejected Rome as a false, antichrist church.
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As we enter Epiphanytide I have some news. After a period of prayer, discernment, wrestling with God, I’ve come to the decision to pursue the priesthood in the Church of Sweden.
I’ll begin my theological studies the coming fall.
Be för mig, en syndare.
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The Church of Christ was founded ”in the beginning”:
-Pentecost catholicised her in 33AD
-Her English Branch sprung in 597
-Her Swedish in 830
-Her East schismed up to and including 1054
-Her Roman Branch schismed at the heterodox councils of Constance and Trent
All clear?
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Currently wrestling with my views on bishops and apostolic succession, I stumbled upon this quote by Lancelot Andrewes, from a letter adressed to Hugenout theologian Pierre du Moulin. It really touched my heart and challenges me in my thinking.🧵1/7
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I yearn to share the Lord’s Table, not only with the Pope and the Patriarchs, the tounge-speakers and Psalm-chanters, but with every murderer, liar, prostitute and adulturer in the world, all of us vested in the Gown of Salvation, the righteousness of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Some things I love about…
Roman Catholicism: Their sacramentality and the Roman Rite liturgies.
Eastern Orthodoxy: The centrality of mystery and the Jesus Prayer. Also beards.
Lutheranism: The hymnody and the theology centred around baptism. Also Eucharistic theology.
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Assurance in the finished work of Christ on the cross is Protestantism’s greatest gift to the Church.
Anyone who says they’re assured of their salvation, probably isn’t saved.
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We need to be doing more of this, especially in urban areas. Fill the streets with vested acolytes, servers and clergymen; make our cities ripe for the Gospel.
Public processions are a fearless public testimony of faithfulness to the Lord:
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Many people need to hear this:
Baptism saves (1 Pet. 3:19-22, Genesis 7:1, John 3:4-7 among others).
Infants should be baptised (Matt. 19:14, Matt. 28:19, Acts 16:33, Genesis 7:7 among others).
Many people need to hear this:
Water baptism doesn't save and infant baptism isn't biblical.
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Infant baptism is the orthodox Christian view because it is the summation of Scripture on the matter. There are very few doctrines that have a ”proof text” and treating the Bible like it has them in abundance is a reductive way of reading. Matt. 28:19 comes close, however.
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Baptism posting will continue until theology improves.
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Protestantism isn’t a denomination or church body, it’s a reform effort within the Catholic Church of Christ; a collection of traditions championing a few common principles of authority and soteriology in, sometimes forceful, dialogue with other Christians. No more, no less.
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I’m gonna get some flak for this but I genuinely don’t understand how someone can claim to uphold Christian values and community and in the same breath can say the most vile things about innocent immigrants and refugees and sometimes even condone violence towards them.
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Happy 1991st Birthday to our One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church!
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”It is the highest art to know that our Sacrament does not depend upon our worthiness. For we are not baptized because we are worthy and holy, nor do we go to confession because we are pure and without sin, but the contrary, because we are poor miserable men.”
- Luther, LC 5:61
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"We must realize that at whatever time we are baptized, we are once for all washed and purged for our whole life. Therefore, as often as we fall away, we ought to recall the memory of our baptism and fortify our mind with it,
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Fun fact! While not as religious as Britain the Swedish monarch is obliged by constitutional law to confess ”the pure Evangelical faith according to the Augsburg Confession of 1593”. If HRH the Crown Princess doesn’t do the same, she is excised from the line of succession.
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Yesterday I was admitted to the Bachelor’s Program in Theology at Uppsala University. Pray for me as I enter this new phase of my studies, the advent of my proper preparation for ministry in Christ’s Church.
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I’m increasingly convinced that the English tradition has something unique to offer, not only to it’s fellow Reformational brethren, but to the whole of Christendom. The simple beauty of the prayerbook liturgies, the preservation of the Apostolic Episcopacy and a firm…
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🧵 On the vestments of the clergy in the Church of Sweden
I will be going through each member of the clergy (deacon, priest and bishop) and the attire they use both in the liturgy and outside of it. Last I will mention the vestments used by lay servers. Images will be offered.
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Anticipating modern critics John Calvin writes: ”Only have done with the calumny that Christ is withdrawn from his Supper if he lurk not under the covering of bread.” (Inst. Ch.17.31)
Calvin’s Supper isnt empty memorialism, rather: ”too high a mystery for either my mind to…1/3
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We are now in formal full communion with the PECUSA. Glory to God!
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The cassock should be the primary garb of every clergyman; every bishop, pastor, elder and deacon. This is true both in service and in public life.
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”St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 3, would not allow the Christians to call themselves Pauline or Petrine, but Christian. How then should I—poor stinking maggot-fodder that I am—come to have men call the children of Christ by my wretched name?”
- Martin Luther
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My biggest whitepill is just reading the Epistle to the Romans again. Me and the boys are always so back when we read Romans.
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P1. Faith is given in baptism
P2. Faith grasps Christ
P3. If one grasps Christ, one is saved
C. Baptism saves
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Unironically epic post. The way of the cross is tough, but His burden is light. Give all your struggles to Him.
Jesus is coming.
And every knee shall bow.
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To all my Protestant brothers and sisters, what is your least Protestant opinion?
(Could be theological, ecclesiological or moral.)
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“In baptism, therefore, every Christian has enough to study and practice all his or her life. Christians always have enough to do to believe firmly what baptism promises and brings.”
- Martin Luther, Catholic Priest
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Despite my enjoyment of lace trimmed cottas, there are few things more liturgically appealing than the old English surplice.
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The Most Rev. Archbishop Martin Modéus of the Episcopal Throne in Uppsala should take the title Patriarch of the North.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
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I would have followed you, my brother. My captain. My king.
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Should I try and make a list of “Swedish Divines” from the various eras of our church history (like pre-Reformation, Reformation, Orthodoxy etc.) so that, even if there aren’t any translations, you all can know which are the important theologians?
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What happened to Old Evangelicalism/Low-Church Christianity? Psalms, hymns, abstinence, lay preaching, black robes, modest clothes etc.
Did modern Evangelicalism and Charismatism kill it? Where has it gone?
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Please pray my family. We have recieved some hard news.
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Was looking through some images of Anglo-Catholic worship and found this image.
Gold, pure gold.
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Anglicans! What are the main reasons you arent Lutheran?
Lutherans! What are the main reasons you arent Anglican?
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Clergy hopping is a constant subject in some of my circles. Anglican or Lutheran priests going over to Rome and getting reordained but keeping their wives.
But does the opposite ever happen? I wonder. Where are the Roman Catholic priests who become Anglican and marry?
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Vesting in the sacristy and Procession to the altar. Note the maniple, the deacon’s dalmatic and the cut of the dress worn by the altar boys. The wide red collar was a sign of not yet being confirmed, but likely in confirmation class. 2/11
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The Sign of the Cross is a little liturgy, and it developed organically into different forms, none of them wrong or erroneous. Some more appropriate in certain liturgical contexts than others. Below is a prime example of taking something adiaphora and fighting about it.
According to Roman Catholic theologians ancient Christian’s crossed themselves right shoulder to left
Pope Innocent III (13th century) said this was the correct manner
Then it changed in the West (left to right) & nobody knows why
Should Christians do it the ancient way?
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The conversion of the Philippian Jailer in Acts 16 implies the baptism of believing children, possibly infants. A short🧵
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A ”celebrity pastor” culture is developing among American Roman Catholics and it’s very sad to see.
Fixation on persona, clips, ”not lengthy seminars” and ecclesial politics is not the way forward. At all. It is something we should all try to steer away from. Pray for the USCCB.
Bp. Strickland: “I hope to continue the work of being a successor of the Apostles on this channel, an opportunity for someone who may be interested or curious about Catholicism, an opportunity for people to learn about who we are. Not lengthy seminars, just 5-7 minute segments…”
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On this day we remember the sacrifice and martyrdom of Jan Hus, one of the great proto-reformers. May the Lord guide us to be as strong as his servant, preacher, shepherd and advocate for the reception of Blessed Cup. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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If I werent Lutheran, I’d be Anglican.
If I werent Anglican I’d be Roman Catholic.
If I werent RC I would be Oriental Orthodox or Reformed.
If I werent OO or Reformed I’d be Eastern Orthodox.
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Apparently, serving an Archbishop as acolyte lends a certain firmness to one’s complextion.
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The Most Rev Martin Modéus, Archbishop of Uppsala and Primate of the Church of Sweden 🇸🇪
POST YOUR PATRIARCH BELOW
his beatitude and holiness patriarch aba mathias of ethiopia, archbishop of aksum, and abbot of the see of tekle'haymanot
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General Confession and Absolution takes place with the congregation and the choir party, apart from the celebrant, kneeling. 3/11
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Reading Calvin’s ’Institutes’ on the Supper. Anyone, and I repeat, *anyone* who says he has a low sacramentology is wrong.
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Celebrated the Elevation of the Cross in two rounds today. First with Low Mass early in the morning, and then as cruxifer at the sext with an in-church procession to a reliquary in the cathedral tower, holding a piece of the Sacred Cross.
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Finished ’Hammer of God’ yesterday. Apart from giving me many things to ponder personally, it convinced me of the pastoral power of the Lutheran views on justification and the Sacraments. These are the heart of Christianity and articulating them like Lutherans do is unmatched.
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Home Not Rome 🧵
Part I
My theological reasons for not swimming the Tiber. This is part one of two threads with an overview of my position. Further reasoning are for comments and future posts. All questions and challenges are welcome.
Let’s take a look. 1/8
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Today our General Synod has said ’yes’ to the establishment of a special ecumenical commission between the Church of Sweden and The Episcopal Church. Glory to God!
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Chainsmoking
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Today I kissed the ring on a Cardinal’s finger, served in the High Mass along with SSC preists and served the Archbishop of Latvia during Solemn Vespers.
These are indeed blessed times. Full image gallery arrives on Wednesday.
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I’ve made two whole threads on this but in short terms:
- The Roman Magisterium, including the Pontiff, is fallible. And it has taught against the plain sense of Scripture.
- Apostolicae Curae is wrong.
- Sola fide, as expounded by the Reformers, is correct.
If you are still Protestant at this point, what are you doing?
I feel like the only people still protestant are people in family/church situations that make it impossible to convert to Catholicism.
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”We do not reject everything that is under the dominion of the Pope. For in that event we should also reject the Christian Church. Much Christian good is to be found in the Papacy and from there it descended to us.”
- Martin Luther, Catholic Reformer
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Blessed Michaelmas from us!
Apart from doing some smoking (will hopefully be able to share images later today) I was elected First Server by the bi-annual thing at St. Ansgar. I will be leading and coordinating the servers at St. Ansgar for the year to come. God is good!
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The vacancy is over! The Most Rev. Martin Modéus has on Sunday been enthroned as Archbishop of the Church of Sweden. Pray for him, his ministry and his flock - our beloved bretheren - and for the security of our church’s apostolic heritage.
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Introit, Glory Be, Salutation and First Reading (Epistle). 4/11
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A painful reminder that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the modern world.
Murdered during Christmas.
Kyrie eleison.
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”The Catholic Church in Sweden, it is us.”
- Archbishop Nathan Söderblom
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Anglicanism: Their unique balance of including so many good things under one tree, the chants, and Anglo-Catholic spirituality.
Presbyterianism/Reformed: The emphasis to Soli Deo Gloria and the systematic approach in tackling theological hurdles.
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After the Ablution there is the Trinitarian Blessing and the Mass is ended as the choir party recess to the sacristy, preferably during some powerful hymnody or organ play.
SDG. 11/11
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Protestants! Give me your best argument against Benediction and Adoration (outside of the service) of the Eucharist.
Romans and Anglo-Catholics, feel free to defend the practice below as well.
I’m really struggling with this issue right now.
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I think saying that Apostolic succession with bishops is necessary for sacramental *confidence* is far more productive than saying it is necessary for sacramental *validity.* But I’d be happy to hear a defence of the latter.
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Procession and Reading of the Gospel, which in this work is advised to be done at a pulpit or lectern if possible, otherwise the first server should hold the book for the deacon or celebrant. 5/11
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I can’t help but think this is awesome.
Anglican & Catholic bishops have started their pilgrimage to Canterbury with a candlelit tour of the Cathedral. They walked in prayer and contemplation, visiting important sites including the altar of Thomas Becket. The bishops are meeting in pairs, from all around the world, to
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If was an American, I would propably be found lurking in the ACNA, clutching my 1662 and complaining about contemporary worship.
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I have difficulty to express the love I have for the traditional High Mass. It’s such a deep act of love; of God to us and of us to God. Celebrated today at Holy Trinity in Uppsala, by SSB clergy and friends (including me), on Sts Philip and James’ Day.
O, The Lord is gracious!
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Ecumenical highlight! Archbishop Martin Modéus, primate of the Church of Sweden, is meeting privately today with His Holiness Pope Francis, discussing prayer, cooperation and theology.
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Before this however, a Hymn of the Day was sung by the choir, led by the cantor. Note the head coverings on some of the women. 7/11
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Sext at Uppsala Cathedral, concluded with Pro pace et principe for the blessing of HM King Carl XVI Gustav, who’s birthday it is tomorrow.
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At the Offertory, the ’kollekt’ (alms of the congregation) are given along with the bread and wine. There is also a beautiful image of the lavabo, made by a server. 8/11
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“Faith is not a distant view but a warm embrace of Christ.”
- Calvin
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”… that I also want to confess the Church, that is our Swedish Church as the apostolic Church of Christ, the Catholic Church in Sweden. Therefore all my books go out, from the Church of Christ by Faith Alone.”
- Bo Giertz. Novelist, theologian and former bishop of Göteborg.
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”I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth…”
Blessed Ascension, friends!
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A most splendid weeked at the Autumn Summit of the Societas Sanctae Birgittae was topped off with the honour of being cruxifer at the High Mass on Sunday. Here I am in my new cassock and a borrowed cotta, one of a few the local parish had recently ordered from England.
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English Language Resources on the Church of Sweden, a continuing 🧵.
A *lot* of you have asked about English language sources on the CofSw. Well, here is my attempt. This list will not be exhaustive, of course, and will be expanded as I continue my own studies.
Let’s go!
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”Of Baptism they teach that it is necessary to salvation, and that through Baptism is offered the grace of God, and that children are to be baptized who, being offered to God through Baptism are received into God’s grace.”
- Philip Melanchthon, Augsburg Confession Article IX
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Next is Confession of the (Nicene) Creed and Homily, at which the celebrant can remove his chasuble for preaching. If he is preaching only, surplice and stole are to be worn. A note is also made that if a layman is preaching, he should wear surplice or an alb. 6/11
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”Therefore state it most simply thus, that the power, work, profit, fruit, and end of Baptism is this, namely, to save. For no one is baptized in order that he may become a prince, but, as the words declare, that he be saved.”
- Martin Luther, LC 4:24
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Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene, torching by yours truly. More photos of the services will come at the end of the Chapter.
#NewProfilePic
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Altar rails are epic and all churches should have them.
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Evangelical Protestantism: The next-level lay knowledge of Scripture and their evangelism.
Liberal Protestantism: The unashamed welcome to everyone, as well as the flexibility in interacting with the secular world.
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Doctrine of Justification by Faith all form, when confessed, a completeness that most other traditions lack. Confessional Anglicanism, when achived, has an evangelistic punch that I believe and hope and pray can reach so much wider then we even dare to dream.
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