Monday, September 26, 2005

One Church

As I have been during a lot of reading on the Reformed Episcopal Church (REC) lately I wondered if they hadn't already achieved in practice what Godfrey talks about in his article "A Reformed Dream". Their Soli Scriptura, adequate but limited number of creeds (the early creeds and the corrective Thirty Nine Articles), their understanding of the universal nature of the church in the way they process ministerial credentials from other denominations, the invitiation they give while observing the Lord's Supper ("All baptized persons of other branches of Christ's Church are affectionately invited to the Lord's Table), and the way they approach missions. Their "Articles of Intercommunion" come close to what Godfrey talks about.