Arsenios
Well-known member
Lets not go down that path. It leads to nowhere.
Everyone is orthodox if he has been born again and entered the process of learning the ways of the Father . . . . of Jesus Christ. Just as any son of His Life should be doing. What can be more "orthodox" than that understanding when embraced by the born again by the Holy Spirit. Evangelize that message.
"Go...
Disciple all the nations...
Teaching them...
Baptizing them..."
Christ's words...
Nothing about preaching to the choir...
Which waits for a spiritual event called being born again...
Then argues about what to do about it...
Orthodoxy disciples those willing to be taught and baptized...
"If anyone is willing...
After Me to be following...
Let him first deny himself...
Then take up his own cross...
And follow Me..."
Apostolic discipling of the Nations entails teaching them the willing repentance which is denial of self, taking up one's own cross [of suffering unto death, which is what a cross IS]...
And therein following Christ...
It is not good-times rock and roll...
Nor lost dog country emotionalism...
It is an arduous God-quest that will transform one's soul from material self-centeredness to God-saturated selflessness... From fear of personal loss, to the fearless Love of God where personal loss is gain in Christ... Where the world turns inside out, upside down and backwards, and is rendered impotent in determining ones actions...
So I disagree with your version of orthodoxy...
It is not merely a way of living a Biblically spiritual life...
It is about loving the Lord our God with ALL that we are...
And about loving one another as ourselves...
God bless you...
Arsenios