Last evening the Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations Committee held a hearing on three resolutions, concerning relations with the Methodist and Presbyterian churches and the Church of Sweden. According to Massachusetts deputy Rebecca Alden, who is marking her third General Convention on the committee, things “got quite involved.” The upshot is that she and two fellow deputies will be filing a new resolution today to replace the proposed A072, “Interim Eucharistic Sharing with the United Methodist Church.”
The AME, AMEZ, and CME churches have found it difficult to engage in ecumenical dialogue of the sort that the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church have had for some years. It should not be difficult for the Episcopal Church to find the same theological congruence with these churches as it has found with the UMC, but attempts to establish relationships that are not mutually asked for are not wise.
Just curious, how can one have inter-communion with churches that don’t believe in the same thing as to the Body and Blood of Christ?
It’s only power derives from the gathering, Lutheran-MS. You must believe in a divine action thingy – so fundamentalist and conservative- to suggest one can’t have intercommunion on the basis of belief about what transpires at u(2)charist…
3. dwstroudmd wrote:
It’s only power derives from the gathering, Lutheran-MS. You must believe in a divine action thingy – so fundamentalist and conservative- to suggest one can’t have intercommunion on the basis of belief about what transpires at u(2)charist…
Confessional Lutherans believe that you can’t have non Lutherans or ELCA Lutheran at our communion rail. There is a saying Lutheran pulpits for Lutheran pastors and Lutheran communion rails for Lutherans only.