this was not the case, by the way, for what happened with our friend JMT.
We received a letter from him asking that we send money to help build back a monastary that burnt down..
so ok, I will go on...this is why I got so "bent out of shape" over it..
we are also invited to join them at their monastary and even given a priviledged place of being invited to prayer and worship with them..
but at the very end of it all we are told, "while we recognize our Prostant brethren as Christians and believe we are to worship in "unity" for now none but confirmed Roman Catholics are invited to celebrate the eucharist with us"
this is for me not only a shock but an insult.
I should go there to "serve" by working my butt off however they need me to "help" to rebuild the physical buildings where they are worshipping and inviting others to the Lord's TABLE but at the same time be refused a place because I do not believe their doctrine is sound?
I'm honestly torn because in a way it's safer for them to know that at least whoever is receiving communion takes the act seriously as sacred..
on the other hand?
there is balance for sure. Unrepentant sinners are going to receive communion week after week (some even administering it as we realize the number of priests who've been involved in blatently sexually abusing children entrusted to their care)
whatever the case..I feel very grieved that John Michael would go along with this, especially when it is because I refused to bow down to Keith Green calling him a heretic that brought down on my head such wrath from a "Reformer"