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I am ACNA, and was very disappointed that they decided to allow women’s orders, albeit in an associate position, to me that is just a stop-gap. The men are worried about being ‘fair’, I am concerned about honoring God’s plan for His Church. God calls us to obedience. I am personally a *complimentarian* and see places for women to serve, but not as Elders or Priests (teachers of men). When women run the church, men retreat. Men and women are not interchangeable. We have differing ways of processing, women are more relational… there are good ways to utilize this in the church, and not so good ways in terms of compromising in the church... where God does not allow. We are staying put, however, because we are mature Christians and are able to lead people away from false teachings attempting to make their way into our congregation.

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"When the Reformers were driven out..." An important distinction not made often enough.

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I've also posted this essay on Kuyperian Commentary. I would encourage you to follow Kuyperian Commentary - there are about 10 men writing for Kuyperian and have a lot of good content.

https://kuyperian.com/rome-is-not-the-answer-to-the-ailments-of-protestantism-the-need-for-a-reformation-in-ecclesiology-in-2025/

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Have you read “The Wittenberg Concord”?

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Lutherans for their part have been taught that the Reformed are hardly Christian.

Dr John Stephenson, who retired about a year ago from Concordia seminary in St Catharines, Ontario, has openly called for contact and open dialogue between Lutherans and the Reformed.

I sent him some stuff from Theopolis and he really liked it.

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No. I should read it.

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It is very good. It shows how the south German reformers, led by Bucer (who was Calvin's mentor) were able to come to an agreement with Luther and Melanchthon on the sacraments.

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I have a book by a CanRef guy who argues that the writing of the Heidelberg Catechism, was in part, an effort to unify the Lutherans and the Calvinists. Theologically, we are close, so close, and even where I disagree, I could work together, with a Bible-believing, Jesus-loving Lutheran.

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I wouldn’t be surprised. The sad thing is that modern Lutherans and Reformed have grown so widely apart that I doubt the two groups can be brought together in our lifetime.

When we lived in Southern Ontario and went to the FRC I was present when our baptismal form was denounced as “Federal Vision.”

And I guarantee you that the idea that Christ “by an ineffable sacramental union” is physically present in the Supper would be vociferously denounced in most- if not all- Reformed bodies today.

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One of my uncles in the URCNA has hung out with some Lutherans. The problem is, a lot of pastors are too busy to cultivate those relationships.

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