Sunday, January 30, 2011
10:00am – 11:30am
Holy Apostles Anglican Church
56 Public Square
Elizabethtown, KY
10:00am – 11:30am
Holy Apostles Anglican Church
56 Public Square
Elizabethtown, KY
The Rt. Rev’d. John A. M. Guernsey, bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Spirit, will preach, celebrate the Eucharist, and install the Rev’d. Chris Larimer as rector of Holy Apostles Anglican Church. The service will begin at 10 AM. Holy Communion is available to all baptized Christians. Afterward, light refreshments will be served and there will be a meet-and-greet with the bishop.
Childcare will be available. Children are welcome in the service. Parking is available around the square and behind the church in Strawberry Alley.
For details, contact the church (270-769-1170) or the rector (frchris@holyapostlesky.org).
Visiting clergy are welcome to process (red stoles, please).
"For our wisdom ought to be nothing else than to embrace with humble teachableness, and at least without finding fault, whatever is taught in Sacred Scripture." John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Bk. 1, Ch. XVIII, sect. 4)
14 comments:
Wonderful. Chris Larimer, the notorious Anglo-Catholic who hates everything Reformed and "Puritan".
OK, Robin. You win:)
You're "not" really promoting heretics or heresy here:)
Right.
Charlie
Chill out, Charlie. I am diversifying. I am launching a cluster of web journals in addition to Anglicans Ablaze. They include:
Heritage Anglicans with a focus upon the heritage of Anglicans in and outside of North America, their inheritance from previous generations of Anglicans and their legacy to their posterity.
The Heritage Network with a focus upon the aims of the Heritage Anglican Network.
West Kentucky Anglicans with a regional focus—what is happening in western Kentucky but also central, northern, and other parts of the Commonwealth, developments outside of Kentucky that may impact churches in Kentucky, and any other topic that might interest Anglicans in Kentucky.
I will be welcoming contributions in the form of media releases related to Kentucky churches, articles describing new ministries and other developments in Kentucky churches, viewpoint articles on particular issues (e.g., open communion).
I am particular interested in thoughtful articles on ways to overcome the isolation of Anglicans and Episcopalians who have no orthodox Anglican or Episcopal church in their area, who may have no area Anglican or Episcopal church at all, who may have fallen victim to the church consolidations and closures of the last few years, (once the US Personal Ordinariate is established) who are High Church Anglicans, or Prayer Book Catholics, did not convert to Roman Catholicism with their former congregation and priest, and become a part of the US Personal Ordinariate, or who for other reasons are churchless; to minister to these Anglicans and Episcopalians; and eventually enfold them into new churches wherever and whenever practicable.
As you may have noted from a number of articles on Anglicans Ablaze, I have been promoting the formation of home groups and house meetings. I regularly post articles on small groups and small group ministry.
I have also been posting articles on life, ministry, and worship in small-membership churches and I am planning to post more articles.
As I pointed to your attention elsewhere, I have posted a number of articles related to new and existing ACNA, Anglican Mission, and Continuing Anglican churches in Anglicans Ablaze over the past 6 years. I am not doing anything new in that regard. The only thing new from my perspective is your objections to them.
I am not going to establish and build up a readership for a regional-focused web journal posting articles about events happening in Kalimazoo, Michigan or the finer points of prelapsarianism. Kentuckians want to read about what is happening in the Commonwealth. In order to establish a readership for the new web journal, I must link it to Anglicans Ablaze, which has a readership. In this way I publicize the new web journal and establish and build up a readership for it.
You may expect to see a number of articles on Anglicans Ablaze that you do not like. That is why I offered to occasionally post a viewpoint article written by you and presenting a different viewpoint. Or if you write an article for your own blog, you can draw my attention to it and I will create an intro for the article and a link to it.
I hope that I have given you a better idea what I am doing.
I guess the devil himself is on your blogroll?
Per your request I have removed my recommendation to your blog.
So in effect, you're endorsing these synagogues of satan as "churches" and encouraging "disaffected" Anglicans to join up with them? Wonderful... Why would you usher folks toward hell?
The Anglo-Catholics are not going to change. What they are going to do is take what you have done and use it to proselytize and lead more people into their heresy. Sorry but I would rather publish the good news and warn against heretics, not promote them.
Robin,
I hope you're prepared for the Amish-style shunnin' that you're about to get. And don't worry if other's don't "get it." Jesus' first disciples weren't always on the ball, either.
Of course no one will notice "my" shunning. But then, apostate Anglicans are more worried about being in communion with the devil than with being in communion with Christ and His elect saints. Of course, that's an invisible communion. No man can lay hands on you for that one. But being a minion of hell, you wouldn't get that.
Charlie
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. (Matthew 12:29 KJV)
It would presuppose that you're not on the devil's side if you were actually "casting" out demons. But when you're actually sitting at table with demons and to claim you're in fact casting them out is a bit silly, don't you think?
Either follow Christ or follow the idolaters. These are not matters of indifference. They are matters that call for separation.
It is really no different from separating from ECUSA. ACNA is every bit as heretical as ECUSA. In fact, more so. Everyone knows ECUSA is apostate. But ACNA pretends to be different. It isn't.
You are the living example of that Chris.
You're no brother. You're deceiver.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:13 KJV)
Charlie
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. (1 Corinthians 6:15-18 KJV)
Spiritual fornication is joining with heretics and various other deceivers who turn the Lord's Supper into idolatry.
Charlie,
My suspicion and I admit it is a suspicion is that you have been looking for an excuse to do what you are doing. You have tried on a number of occasions to pick a fight with me, which from my where I sit looked like you were seeking justification to "disfellowship" yourself from me.
Let me remind you of a couple of passages of Scripture.
Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. (James 5:19-20)
How can we turn back the wanderers if we seperate ourselves completely from them and withdraw all interaction with them?
If we have a message that others need to hear, how are we spreading that message preaching to an empty room or lecturing to those who agree with us. In the latter case we are preaching to the choir. I do not believe that we are being good stewards of God's manifold grace. Rather we are taking our talent, wrapping it in a hankerchief, and burying it in the ground instead of investing it on our Master's behalf.
The second passage of Scripture also comes from the epistles.
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (Galatians 5:19-24)
Behind what at first glance appear to be zeal for doctrinal purity can be lurking a contentious spirit. The human heart is very deceitful. Even the regenerate are not free from the proclavity to sin.
I have not backed away from upholding the Protestant and Reformed character of authentic historical Anglicanism. I am going about it in a different way from the way that you would. This is what I have discerned that God is leading me to do. I find support for what I am doing in Scripture. I do not believe that I am doing the wrong thing. It is regretable that you do. I harbor no ill-will toward you and I on my part am open to reconciliation between us. God bless you. May his peace rest upon you and upon your heart.
That knife cuts both ways, Robin. The fact is I have NOT been looking for anything of the sort. However, it's obvious that you have the same mindset as Larimer. Ecumenical concerns trump doctrine.
It seems to me that you're the one who is contentious. I have plenty of Protestant friends:)
There's no need to compromise with the devil. You're not going to supernaturally raise the dead. Only God can do that.
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. (Titus 3:10-11 KJV)
It might be that you were looking for an excuse to force me to disfellowship with you.
You got it.
Charlie,
I feel no emnity toward you--only sadness. I think that God in his time will show you that what you have said has no truth to it. I realize that you believe it does. I doubt that I could convince you otherwise. You have chosen to believe what you wish to believe. When someone does that, he has shut door to what others say. Unless and until he opens the door again, they may as well go about their business. Peace be with you, my friend, God's perfect peace, the peace that passeth all understanding.
No, I've chosen believe the Scriptures and the Reformed Confessions.
You've decided you are your own authority.
I'm done with this discussion.
May God grant you the grace to repent of your ungodly fellowship at the table of idols and demons.
Charlie
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