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Posted on: Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:54 PM
Author: ptmccain
Subject: Overheard on a Lutheran forum…..about Open Communion
Open communion is a function of denominationalism. It really destroys the whole concept of church by allowing anyone and everyone to be their own church. Closed communion takes division seriously; open communion does not. The NALC and LCMC will have to decide if they are in full communion with the ELCA. If so, their leaving was an exercise in pointlessness; why make a point of disassociating in some outward way if you're going to insist that the only unity that matters remains unchanged? But if not, why not? Open communion simply means that nothing beyond individual opinion ultimately matters; the church cannot confess anything, because it cannot separate itself from contrary confessions. |
I appreciated this comment overheard on a Lutheran Internet forum…. what do you think?
