What does matter is that you commit to not lying, to not doing what you know to be morally wrong.
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Together with baptism, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is the starting point of our life in Christ.
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It’s better to think of your priest not as a spiritual father along the monastic lines but as a coach.
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… in the hands of an inexperienced or ill-prepared priest, obedience is a recipe for great and lasting harm for the layperson, the parish and the priest himself.
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…we corrupt families and parishes, when we make monastic life the model for our life in Christ.
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Orthodox Christians tend to overemphasize the therapeutic nature of salvation at the expense of our own moral and legal tradition.
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Here’s the video of my talk earlier this month in Grand Rapids. It was sponsored by the Alliance of Orthodox Christians, a non-profit Orthodox lay ministry devoted to lay spiritual formation and catechesis.
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While culture is important, even under the best of conditions it is always only nominally Christian. The reason for this is that culture–all cultures–is always a mix of different traditions.
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While religious education and apologetics are both important, we need to be careful that we don’t confuse saying things which are true with “speaking the truth in love.”
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…new programs aren’t really the answer. Not because programs are bad, they’re not, but because the life of the Church can’t be contained by programs. And, more importantly, even the best program can (even if unintentionally) stifle the creativity of the individual.
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