I was told this morning about a parishioner from another area parish saying that those at St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Vestal don't believe in Jesus Christ. For the record, we do believe in Jesus Christ. We believe in the Jesus Christ revealed in Holy Scripture, proclaimed by the apostles and described in the creeds. The Jesus of history and the Jesus of faith (as that faith has been delivered in Scripture and Tradition) is the Jesus who is trusted at St. Andrew's.
Maybe the problem is that this Jesus is not the one proclaimed in area Episcopal churches and so the speaker was confused. Or is it just another example of the lack of inclusive love on the part of those who speak the loudest about inclusive love? It is strange that those who speak so often and fervently about inclusive love speak with such hate about our parish. People who come to us tell us about how warm and friendly they find us, but you wouldn't know that if your only source of information about our parish is a detractor who obviously doesn't really know all that much about our parish. And since we are no longer in pecusa, why should they care?
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