The Church

• "[The Bible] is not what the Lord carefully laid down. And that is why we confess that we believe one Holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church. You see, the Lord left on earth a Church. An earthly body. A community. A family. He did not merely leave an unfleshed memory, or an invisible idea. He did not merely leave a theological set of priciples, that we can argue over, and parse, and pick apart, and then divide over, and accuse one another of being wrong, or who has the gospel the most correct. That is not, thank God, what the Lord left behind. He left behind the Church. The apostolic Church." - Fr. Willbur David Ellsworth

Church Governance

"Plutocracy is a poor system of governance always, and most especially for a Church." -- Fr. Mark Sietsema, Epigrams and Interludes From the Notebook of a Semi-Experienced Priest, Praxis, Spring 2014

It's Not All About the Church

"There is a temptation to preach the Church rather than 'Christ and Him crucified." But what does it profit a man to know the color symbolism of iconography, if he does not practice seventy-times-seven forgiveness?" -- Fr. Mark Sietsema, Epigrams and Interludes From the Notebook of a Semi-Experienced Priest, Praxis, Spring 2014

See Also

The Church Is The Body