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Great Awakening in the "reformed" world

The final announcement of the Pope (answers to questions about some aspects of the doctrine of the Church - Link ) caused quite a stir in the evangelical world. The supporters of the ecumenical movement within the churches are very surprised about that the Bishop of Rome, the Reformed churches not actually accepted as a church. The fifth point of a short document that explains the doctrine of the Roman Church, the pope takes a position on the Reformed churches. Here's the text:

5th question: Why do the texts of the Council and the Magisterium of the communities from the Reformation of the 16th Century emerged, the title "church" not to?

Answer: Because these communities have, according to Catholic doctrine of apostolic succession is not in Holy Orders and are, therefore, deprived of a constitutive element of the Church. These ecclesial , Which have mainly because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood, have not preserved the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic Mystery can not, according to Catholic doctrine are "churches" in the proper sense.

Frankly, my opinion this has not surprised. The Roman Church has never claimed otherwise. When you observe honestly and accurately what happened in the often vaunted approach, then each well, which has now been recorded on paper (see, for example, the impact of the Joint Declaration on Justification). Now, if church leaders are surprised that there is only one way out of Rome - back to Rome - then they probably have the issues they have studied in the past been misled.

Who is surprised now about the comments of Rome, who knows quite simply the Roman doctrine, which is actually always communicate openly and honestly. I can not deny me the impression that those people do not know exactly but also their own origins, or to look away at least negligent about it. There was a reason why have separated the Reformers from the entity that calls itself church. They wanted to start a new church. Instead, they sat down with all our power to ensure that the Church is renewed. When this structure but to she turned and could not be put on the price of biblical doctrine, have left the reformers of this institution with a heavy heart and gathered with the believers in one church. This meeting will be nothing new, but the holy catholic (meaning general) Church, we confess.

Who is still reformed, but real, how to read on Lebensquellen.de is that is can easily recognize that this opinion simply shows that has changed little since the Reformation. Still, the reformed churches all believe that they are church. This opinion is a little uncomfortable, but who is not so, could we just really back to Rome.

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gospel and baptism

a completely underdeveloped theme in terms of reforming council - I would say council at all - is the connection between the Gospel and baptism. Not that the baptism in many communities and churches are not anywhere has its place. Taufseminare be offered once a year and baptisms held on a beautiful lake or river. But it seems to me that baptism is somehow slipped back. As we can see in Acts, is baptized at each conversion event immediately (Acts 2:38, 8, 13 36, 9, 18, 10, 47, 16.15, 16, 33, 18, 8, 19, 5) . The Great Commission is, among other things, a yes baptize (Mark 16:16; 28.19 Mt). Therefore we can assume that baptism has been part of Evangliumsverkündigung. Since the baptism took place immediately after the conversion, the apostles and evangelists in their versions of the Gospel spoken clearly about the meaning of baptism.

This fact invites us to question our own preaching. Let's baptism as a central theme in non-Christians?

also could use the opportunity that many baptized people who have no respect for the Church to respond to their own baptism, the sign of the covenant, the responsibility to is connected, the promises, but also the threat that was made to Federal offenders.

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music and singing in worship

Today it is quite natural to want to be sung in worship. In some communities, the song has its own permanent place of worship. He is then called worship or praise. What I read today by Bullinger (decade 5, sermon 5), has attracted attention myself again. Is what is now done as a matter of course, really in order? The passage from the sermon by Bullinger seems to me to speak directly to our time. But self

read very much in church singing is reprehensible. First, many, even most of the true fear of God contrary to sing and not everything is from the Holy Scriptures, but from all sorts of living and human traditions. And what is sung from the Scriptures is so twisted and distorted, that nothing of the divine spirit remains. Thus, creatures and dead people called. Second, this song is mandatory and not voluntary, and you sing with a free spirit, but to get under duress, yes you sing even to wages and an ecclesiastical benefice, as they call it. Also sing clerics who have been hired to do so and not as once the whole Church of Christ. Of singing is no end and no mass. It is sung day and night. This foolish, indeed wicked Singing is as if he were a godly and commendable work, more conceded than the true faith allows. One could say it's the talk that the Lord has in Matthew banned as a pagan superstition and sentenced. Furthermore, one sings in a foreign language that few people know why the Church has no profit. You hear a long tone without words that mean something to float, that expands up and down sound. Not infrequently, the singers compete with each other with their voices, echoes that the whole Church by a harsh cry, and understand the listener through the competition of the vote hardly what is sung. I say anything at this point about the music that you> called figurative, "and the musical instruments, almost all of which are included in the organ. I say nothing of Lamentations or the prayers for the dead, which I have spoken elsewhere. These and similar things, but take all the time so in the service claim that only a very small part or none of the true prayers and sacred divine preaching the Word of God can be given. Therefore lead those who believe in the gospel, with good reasons not tolerate such a song from him and not God in the Church. In the highest mass God-fearing and wise action is to be considered those what is the best or even the entire period of the church meetings for devotional and quiet prayers and for the saving preaching of the word used of God, and omit this song, because it is difficult to isolate a decent se singing so that he does not at some point the legitimate bounds exceed.