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Date: 01 December 2005 23:26:31
At the Orthodox retreat I was at, we got together a little table of people who were not born into the Orthodox church. I like to hear how people find out about Orthodoxy.
I didn't know anything about it until a friend started exploring Orthodoxy and started going on and on (in a good way;-)) about how so many of the problems in the Protestant church are not present in the Orthodox. Then I started reading Ian's blog. I wasn't really interested in all the pictures of Jesus with a halo - as a protestant I'd say, "as if Jesus walked around with a halo". I was interested to find out what it was that the apostles taught the people, and so what the early church was like - not just guessing from the new testament letters, where every scholar has a different interpretation, but stuff that was known.
I hear a similar story from people I've read about or spoken to. People meet someone who is Orthodox, and/or want to know what happened at the end of the stories of the early church in the bible. What happened between 33 A.D. and Martin Luther reforming the church? Their search leads to the Orthodox church, who continue these teachings. The church who remembers the apostles and other Christians who have gone before them, using amongst other ways, pictures with halos. I can cope with that now!