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A Reflection on Ecumenism
By RickMeasham | October 8, 2005
When God puts us back together again (With the aid of, our willingness to cooperate) This great church will be marked by The dignity and scholarship of the Anglicans The order and sacraments of the Roman Catholics The warm fellowship of the Methodists The Presbyterian desire for good preaching And the Lutheran respect for sound theology. There will be the Baptist concern for individual salvation The Congregational respect for the rights of the lay members The Pentecostal reliance on the power of the Holy Spirit And the Quaker appreciation for silence. We will find there the Mennonite sense of community The social action of the Salvation Army And the Reformed love of the Bible All wrapped in the Orthodox reverence before the mystery of God.
From “A Survival Guide for Ecumenically Minded Christians” by Father Tom Ryan CSP, NOVALIS 1989
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