Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called on bishops from around the world to revive the Christian faith among those who have forgotten or abandoned it.
The Church needs a new “missionary dynamic” of lay people and must pay “particular attention (to) baptized people who do not live according to the requirements of the baptism,” he said as 262 bishops wound up a three-week huddle that broached all major issues and crises shaking the 2,000-year-old institution.
Clerics must also apply “new methods, a new language that suits different cultures” in their bid for a “new evangelism,” he said during a closing mass at Saint Peter’s....
Now, John Y., has come closer the meaning of baptism, than many have, and perhaps more so than he has even in the past.
Indian Hills Community Church Statement of Faith wrote: 12. Ordinances We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ instituted two ordinances to be observed by all believers until His return--baptism and the Lord's Supper (Matt. 28:19; 1 Cor. 11:23-26).
Jim Lincoln wrote: One baptism? Now this could very well be true of Catholics and Copts since they have a false baptism.
False Baptism? Any Baptism done in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a True Baptism because that is the formula that Jesus gave for Baptism. And Infant Baptism is just a dedication of infants to Jesus and does not impart salvation just as Adult Baptism is just a dedication of adults to Jesus and does not impart salvation. Infant Dedication is the same as Infant Baptism because both are dedications of infants to Jesus.
SteveR wrote: Thank you for posting that, I found these related quotes at the PCA elders website 'We conservative, reformed, PCA types may well be terribly uncomfortable with this emphasis. First, for good reason, we distrust this “love ethic.” After all, liberals have somewhat ruined the word love for us, justifying everything from abortion to same-sex marriages under the banner of love ' 'It is more difficult to love than to be confessional; it costs more to love them to be missional; and love calls for more humility and self-denial than piety.' 'There are not a few who might dismiss this article because I have quoted a Catholic Pope so extensively. I am not endorsing Catholic Theology, Papal exegesis, or Rome’s Ecclesiology. I simply want to illustrate, with another’s words, how central love is to the Christian life and faith.'
Anybody who is even vaguely taken in by this trash needs to read 2 John and notice that LOVE is always in the TRUTH. IOW It is not some sentimental effeminate gush which the RCC promote: they can't do anything different cuz they do not possess the truth!
Look at verse 10. No doubt this would be considered most unloving by the woolly headed!
Prophet, Priest and King wrote: This is an excerpt: "Joseph Ratzinger is the chief theologian of the Roman Catholic Church. We know him better as Pope Benedict XVI, the current pontiff of Rome. "
Thank you for posting that, I found these related quotes at the PCA elders website
'We conservative, reformed, PCA types may well be terribly uncomfortable with this emphasis. First, for good reason, we distrust this “love ethic.” After all, liberals have somewhat ruined the word love for us, justifying everything from abortion to same-sex marriages under the banner of love '
'It is more difficult to love than to be confessional; it costs more to love them to be missional; and love calls for more humility and self-denial than piety.'
'There are not a few who might dismiss this article because I have quoted a Catholic Pope so extensively. I am not endorsing Catholic Theology, Papal exegesis, or Rome’s Ecclesiology. I simply want to illustrate, with another’s words, how central love is to the Christian life and faith.'
The PCA's General Assembly Moderator, Pastor Mike Ross, offers an outstanding treatise on "The Law of Love" (April 27th, 2013 over at ByFaith) in which he contends that only the love of God can heal the wounds we in the PCA inflict on each other and on our common life, and he closes the devotional with ten concrete steps toward a more loving PCA.
This is an excerpt:
"Joseph Ratzinger is the chief theologian of the Roman Catholic Church. We know him better as Pope Benedict XVI, the current pontiff of Rome. In his book Credo For Today: What It Means to be a Christian (his explanation of the Apostles’ Creed), Ratzinger interacts with Christ’s answer to the rabbinical lawyer about loving God and neighbors. Please permit me to quote the Pope in detail:
"That, then, is the whole of Jesus Christ’s demand. Anyone who does this—who has love—is a Christian; he has everything. He is not asking about a confession of dogma, solely about love. That is enough, and it saves a man. Whoever loves is a Christian..."
Enterprise, naturally they're against it, they don't want any of their illegitimate children aborted!
Wikipedia wrote: The Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland is a major chapter in the worldwide Catholic sexual abuse scandal. Unlike the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, the scandal in Ireland included cases of high-profile Catholic clerics involved in illicit heterosexual relations as well as widespread physical abuse of children in the Catholic-run childcare network.
ABC News wrote: In language never before used by an Irish leader, an outraged Mr Kenny later told parliament the church's inability to deal with the cases showed a culture of "dysfunction, disconnection, elitism and narcissism" at the Vatican.
Dr. Alan Cairns | 8/3/2009
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In other words business as usual for the Romish Church in Australia, 
