Ecumenism: Perspective from a Convert-turned-Mt. Athos Monk

Thanks for posting this [url=http://uncutmountain.com/uncut/docs/fralexios_contours.pdf]great article to read[/url] (I thought if it were \'clickable\' more people would actually read it.) It\'s twelve pages long. Print it out if you need to.

From the article: \". . . protestants, like most Christian ecumenists, do not identify the article of the Creed, \"I believe in Once, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church\" with any particular community of Christians, much less with the Orthodox Church. They envision the Church as encompassing everyone irrespective of dogmatic differences . . . Christ founded only one Church, which historically continues to exist today as the Orthodox Church . . .\" The Protestants are wrong because not everyone is included in the Church. Moreover, all those in the \"historical\" Orthodox Church will not be included in the Eschatological church. It is arrogant to downplay how the Orthodox Church is full of wheat & chaff. I think we Orthodox ought to take the beam out of our own eye.

I didn\'t get any such vibes reading the article. Perhaps if he were addressing the problem of wheat and chaff within the Church, I would be cowering in the corner bleeding out my eyes.