Am curious about your prophecy - if you can call it that - re pentecostal/non-denominational churches taking on liturgical practices. Twenty-some years later, I haven't seen that. Have you?
The Charismatic Episcopal church still exists, but you’d have to say I was wrong (along with the charismatic leader I was writing about). The trend was some charismatics heading to the ancient churches with others.
I think the CEC is on life support...I never hear about them and I couldn't even get their website to work. What I do see is PCA types going Anglican - at least here in the PNW - so there's some reverse movement out of Reformed churches but the national PCA folks say they are doing quite well. We'll wait 5 years til the dust from Covid settles but it does seem that Anglicans are doing OK.
There's an evangelical church near us called Epiclesis (https://www.epiclesis.org) that is an example of this sort of thing. I like to say they're Orthodox but just don't realize it yet. I've seen hints of it from a local First Baptist church as well. The evangelicals and pentecostals arrive at Orthodoxy from opposite sides. The evangelicals struggel against the mysticism of Orthodoxy while the pentacostals struggle against the guardrails Orthodoxy puts around its mysticism.
In truth, everyone has a liturgy. Are there things you do at the same time of every service? Are there words that you repeat at every service? Do you believe those actions and words are an integral part of your service? Then you have a liturgy. Even if you refuse to call it that. (And if you don't have any of those things, I think it's fair to ask if you even have a church.)
Am curious about your prophecy - if you can call it that - re pentecostal/non-denominational churches taking on liturgical practices. Twenty-some years later, I haven't seen that. Have you?
The Charismatic Episcopal church still exists, but you’d have to say I was wrong (along with the charismatic leader I was writing about). The trend was some charismatics heading to the ancient churches with others.
I think the CEC is on life support...I never hear about them and I couldn't even get their website to work. What I do see is PCA types going Anglican - at least here in the PNW - so there's some reverse movement out of Reformed churches but the national PCA folks say they are doing quite well. We'll wait 5 years til the dust from Covid settles but it does seem that Anglicans are doing OK.
There's an evangelical church near us called Epiclesis (https://www.epiclesis.org) that is an example of this sort of thing. I like to say they're Orthodox but just don't realize it yet. I've seen hints of it from a local First Baptist church as well. The evangelicals and pentecostals arrive at Orthodoxy from opposite sides. The evangelicals struggel against the mysticism of Orthodoxy while the pentacostals struggle against the guardrails Orthodoxy puts around its mysticism.
In truth, everyone has a liturgy. Are there things you do at the same time of every service? Are there words that you repeat at every service? Do you believe those actions and words are an integral part of your service? Then you have a liturgy. Even if you refuse to call it that. (And if you don't have any of those things, I think it's fair to ask if you even have a church.)