tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post18018976540557780..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: Weedon on Ecumenical EngagementSchützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-47518695735437853412007-09-05T21:54:00.000+10:002007-09-05T21:54:00.000+10:00Great corrections and augmentation, David...but th...Great corrections and augmentation, David...but then you are a professional in this so I would expect nothing less!<BR/><BR/>I will be honest and admit the original comment regarding converts made me wince. In part because there was some truth to it. I am still shedding my Protestant skin and am not so Orthodox. It will take more time in the community for me to absorb and ultimately reflect Orthodoxy in my "being".<BR/><BR/>However...you are correct in that sometimes converts have the book learnin' down better than the cradles. A number of cradles attended my Catechism class and I was quite surprised at what they didn't know that I knew!<BR/><BR/>The reality is, however, one can't make generalities about converts or cradles. When I was a convert to Lutheranism...I didn't know a thing. I just was joining because my husband and I wanted to go to the church associated with the school our son attended. I wasn't a "serious" convert already familiar with the likes of the Book of Concord. In fact...it would be 10 years before I even learned what a Book of Concord was...which is a reflection of me as an unknowledgable convert (a serious convert would have read it and be able to quote from it) and of my cradle counterparts who were also unfamiliar enough to refer to it in our discussions of the faith.<BR/><BR/>I think Pastor Weedon's original point about not putting all one's eggs in one recent convert's basket is, in the final analysis, an excellent one and your augmentation about engaging many folk from the other confession as possible is the proper corrective.Dixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08511317203353075644noreply@blogger.com