The Pope reconsiders Martin Luther « LiturgicalCredo.com’s Blog
Read the above article first before reading my comments below, PLEASE!
There was a the article above and then some comments below. I had to reply with my thoughts and felt that this was the beginning of a good blog post. 
My view is that even though I go to a Methodist Church, I am first a believer in Jesus Christ, God The Father and the Holy Spirit. I just happen to go to a Methodist Church and in that, I go there because Jesus is alive and well there. The Holy Spirit is very Active and moving and working. I believe in the Bible and it’s infallibility, not any man, for we all fall short of the Glory of God and all have sinned, period. The fact that my church has a Traditional service and a Contemporary service(which I go to ) is evident that we have a good mix of people that worship differently and my church has recognized that and created the contemporary services. Jesus never stated the need for a hundred different denominations, He just wanted people to have the faith of a mustard seed. As Pastor Larry stated this past weekend in one of his talks on an Emmaus weekend, “the Devil just comes into the church and starts asking questions like, the bread really isn’t the REAL body of Christ is it?” Thus begins the separation of believers into a sort of ‘faction’ group of people that allowed division to come in. Anyway, my response below to the post and read the previous comments to mine as well if you can.
The song we sang this past weekend that I’m sure is an old timey hymnal goes like this, “One Bread, One Body, One Lord of All, One cup of Blessing which we Bless, and we though many, throughout the earth, we are ONE body in this ONE LORD”
Luther was a Great man of God and saw the truth. Thank God for Luther and what he did. His 95th Thesis is spot on. Indulgences were heresy and so is the fact that the pope is ‘infallible’
Christ died for all and to all whom believe in Him are CHRISTians…period. There is no Catholic or Protestant Church…it’s One Church.
Read Ephesians 2:8, 9 & 4:4, 5
Where is the Church anyway? is it in the Vatican? Is is only your church with walls that you worship in on Sundays and maybe Wednesday’s? The Church, in my humble opinion, is the Body of Believers all over the world, not encompassed by walls, but by souls, anywhere and everywhere.
There is a need, I do believe, for different denominations across the world, that enable you to worship alike in a corporate environment, but to say that Catholics or Protestants is what Jesus intended…I’m not so sure. Man gets in the way, but God’s plans and will overcome ultimately.
Folks, you do realize that this article was another instance of the Daily Mail being about as accurate as usual… which is to say not very accurate at all.
The story is so inaccurate it is borderline fabrication and the Vatican has denied any such intent.
Interesting post. “One Bread, One Body” is not really a hymn, but a Catholic folk song written by Fr. John Foley, S. J., a Jesuit priest.
As a Catholic song, it captures the reality that Catholics throughout the world are one body, the Body of Christ. The precise place of Protestants in relationship to the Church has been discussed by Joseph Ratzinger as Cardinal and as Pope Benedict XVI. Protestant Churches without the historic priesthood rooted in Apostolic Succession and not bearing the 7 sacraments in their fullness are not “Churches” per se, but ecclesial communities.
I don’t say this to be intentionally divisive, but to indicate that there are meaningful and vitally important differences between the Catholic faith and that of Protestants. These differences are not only rooted in the Reformation but in the Early Church Fathers who wrote of apostolic succession, the Real Presence in the Eucharist and many other things that many Protestants have discarded. Your pastor may say that the devil made us ask doctrinal questions, but if that is so, then all the Early Church Fathers were move by the devil. I just don’t see it that way. In fact, one of the things that most separates us today is the cavalier attitude of many Protestants like your pastor to the ancient Christian truths. It is nice to say “yeah we are all one.” It is a nice sentiment for a retreat, but there is hard work to do before that feeling corresponds to a unity that is real.
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