Isaakos wrote:I have noticed over the years you focus very much on the acts of other laity.
Who cares what the laity do? The question is- what does their bishop teach? How does he maintain the confession of faith?
I wouldn’t give credence to second or third hand accounts of how laity are involved in other churches, for two reasons-
- To give the benefit of the doubt.
- It doesn’t matter to existence of the Church they belong to.
Regarding Hierarchs and their need to repent, the synod they joined accepted them, and the synod can deal with it. It’s part of being Orthodox. Our job as a laity is to find a place we can trust doctrinally. AFTER that, we let go of the reins. Christ will judge.
“Perhaps the last rebels against the betrayers of the church and the acomplices of her ruin will be , not only not bishops and not arch priests but the simplest of mortals just as at the cross of Christ his last gasp of suffering was heard by a few simple souls who were close to him” st. Joseph of Petrograd. It seems very appropriate in the times were in .