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Roman Catholicism – Orthodox Church

Roman Catholicism – Orthodox Church. Worldview Workshop. Objectives. Understand the tenets of Catholicism and Orthodoxy Identify bridges and barriers to sharing the Gospel with Catholics and Orthodox Understand the other influences on Catholicism and Orthodoxy among your People Group

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Roman Catholicism – Orthodox Church

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  1. Roman Catholicism – Orthodox Church Worldview Workshop

  2. Objectives • Understand the tenets of Catholicism and Orthodoxy • Identify bridges and barriers to sharing the Gospel with Catholics and Orthodox • Understand the other influences on Catholicism and Orthodoxy among your People Group • Explore various approaches to successfully evangelize the people

  3. World ReligionsJason MandrykOperation World 2010 • Christian 32.29% 2,229,951,315 • Muslim 22.9% 1,581,765,792 • Hindu 13.88% 958,695,903 • Non-Religious 13.58% 937,904,918 • Buddhist 6.92% 478,164,008 • Chinese 5.94% 409,917,596 • Ethnoreligionist 3.00% 206,942,003 • Sikh 0.35% 23,990,543 • Jew 0.21% 14,523,554 • Baha’i 0.09% 6,181,049

  4. World ReligionsJason MandrykOperation World 2010 • Muslim 22.9% 1,581,765,792 • Catholic 15.77% 1,089,734,865 • Hindu 13.88% 958,695,903 • Non-Religious 13.58% 937,904,918 • Buddhist 6.92% 478,164,008 • Chinese 5.94% 409,917,596 • Ethnoreligionist 3.00% 206,942,003 • Sikh 0.35% 23,990,543 • Jew 0.21% 14,523,554 • Baha’i 0.09% 6,181,049

  5. Catechism of the Catholic Church • Authority and Truth • Who is God? • Christ’s Sacrifice • Mary, Mother of God • What is Sin? • The Sacraments • The Saints

  6. Catechism of the Catholic Church • Authority and Truth • Who is God? • Christ’s Sacrifice • Mary, Mother of God • What is Sin? • The Sacraments • The Saints

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  8. Authority and Truth • SCRIPTURE 133 The Church "forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful. . . to learn the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. • TRADITION 82 … Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence. • MAGISTERIUM (Teaching Ministry of the Church) 95 "It is clear therefore that, in the supremely wise arrangement of God, sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church are so connected and associated that one of them cannot stand without the others.

  9. Authority and Truth • “The Orthodox Church recognizes one principal source of doctrine: Tradition, both oral and written” (Dmitri, 6). • “Tradition is the living continuity with the past, the link we have with the Church of ancient days. Tradition cannot change; it is Truth!...Tradition includes the books of the Bible, the Creeds, the Church Fathers and their teachings, the decisions of the Ecumenical Councils, the Liturgy, the canons and the entire system of Church government and worship.” Grube, p. 334.

  10. Teaching of the Church Scripture Tradition • Encouragement to Read Scripture • 1 Tim 4:13 Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching. • Exodus 24:7 Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!"

  11. Teaching of the Church • Reading: 2 Tim 3:15 & 1 Tim 4:13 • Tradition: Deut 4:2 & Rev 22:18-19 Matt. 15:2-6 • Guide: John 16:13; 1 John 2:27; Acts 20:32 Scripture Tradition

  12. Catechism of the Catholic Church • Authority and Truth • Who is God? • Christ’s Sacrifice • Mary, Mother of God • What is Sin? • The Sacraments • The Saints

  13. 253 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial Trinity". The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God." Colossians 2:9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, John 14:16-17a, 18, 23 What other groups would NOT hold to this? Who is God?

  14. Who is God? • Gregory of Nyssa summarized the Orthodox view of the mystery of God: “The true knowledge and vision of God consist in this- in seeing that He is invisible, because what we seek lies behind all knowledge, being wholly separated by the darkness of incomprehensibility.” Clendenin, Daniel B. Eastern Orthodox Christianity- a Western Perspective (“EOC”). (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1994), p. 47. • “the only ultimate theological criterion to which Orthodoxy appeals is the living presence of God himself, who safeguards the church and promises through his Spirit to lead us and guide us into all truth.” EOC, p. 107.

  15. Catechism of the Catholic Church • Authority and Truth • Who is God? • Christ’s Sacrifice • Mary, Mother of God • What is Sin? • The Sacraments • The Saints

  16. 1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation." Christ’s Sacrifice

  17. 1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: "The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different." "And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory."190 Christ’s Sacrifice

  18. Eucharist (Gk. “thanksgiving”) – the Mystery (Sacrament) under which the bread and wine become the very Body and Blood of Christ. (Grube, 129) “But the food you receive, that living bread, which came down from heaven, supplies the very substance of eternal life, and whoever eats it will never die, for it is the very Body of Christ” (St Ambrose of Milan, Grube 131). Christ’s Sacrifice

  19. “It is also the self-same Sacrifice of the Cross, repeated sacramentally. This does not mean that it is done “all over again,” but rather “once again made actual and present” to us living today” (Grube, 131). “A community which does not have the Eucharist at the heart of its worship cannot properly call itself a Christian Church” (Grube, 130). Christ’s Sacrifice

  20. Hebrews 10:10-14 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 13 waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. Christ’s Sacrifice

  21. Hebrews 10:10-14 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 13 waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. Christ’s Sacrifice

  22. Catechism of the Catholic Church • Authority and Truth • Who is God? • Christ’s Sacrifice • Mary, Mother of God • What is Sin? • The Sacraments • The Saints

  23. 508 From among the descendants of Eve, God chose the Virgin Mary to be the mother of his Son. "Full of grace", Mary is "the most excellent fruit of redemption" (SC 103): from the first instant of her conception, she was totally preserved from the stain of original sin and she remained pure from all personal sin throughout her life. What verse comes to mind? Mary, Mother of God

  24. 971 "All generations will call me blessed": "The Church's devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship."515 The Church rightly honors "the Blessed Virgin with special devotion. From the most ancient times the Blessed Virgin has been honored with the title of 'Mother of God,' to whose protection the faithful fly in all their dangers and needs. . . . This very special devotion . . . differs essentially from the adoration which is given to the incarnate Word and equally to the Father and the Holy Spirit, and greatly fosters this adoration."516 The liturgical feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, an "epitome of the whole Gospel," express this devotion to the Virgin Mary.517 Mary, Mother of God

  25. “The Orthodox Church honors and venerates the Virgin Mary as ‘more honorable than the Cheribumand more glorious without compare than the Serephim (Dmitri, 52). From this it can be seen how high a place of honor we Orthodox ascribe to the holy virgin in our theology and prayer. She is for us the supreme offering made by the human race to God” (Ware, 78). “The Church sees her, the mother of God, who without being a substitute for the one Mediator, interceded before her son for all humanity (Clendenin, 66) Mary, Mother of God

  26. Luke 1:47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. Mark 6:3 Is he not the carpenter, 3 the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. NAB Matt 1:25 Matt 12:46-49 Mary, Mother of God

  27. 3 [3] Is he not the carpenter?: no other gospel calls Jesus a carpenter. Some witnesses have "the carpenter's son," as in Matthew 13:55. Son of Mary: contrary to Jewish custom, which calls a man the son of his father, this expression may reflect Mark's own faith that God is the Father of Jesus (Mark 1:1, 11; 8:38; 13:32; 14:36). The brother of James . . . Simon: in Semitic usage, the terms "brother," "sister" are applied not only to children of the same parents, but to nephews, nieces, cousins, half-brothers, and half-sisters; cf Genesis 14:16; 29:15; Lev 10:4. While one cannot suppose that the meaning of a Greek word should be sought in the first place from Semitic usage, the Septuagint often translates the Hebrew ah by the Greek word adelphos, "brother," as in the cited passages, a fact that may argue for a similar breadth of meaning in some New Testament passages. For instance, there is no doubt that in v 17, "brother" is used of Philip, who was actually the half-brother of Herod Antipas. On the other hand, Mark may have understood the terms literally; see also Mark 3:31-32; Matthew 12:46; 13:55-56; Luke 8:19; John 7:3, 5. The question of meaning here would not have arisen but for the faith of the church in Mary's perpetual virginity.

  28. Matt 1:25 He had no relations with her until she bore a son, 12 and he named him Jesus. NAB Matt 12:46-49 While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him. 47 Someone said to Him, "Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You.“ 48 But Jesus answered the one who was telling Him and said, "Who is My mother and who are My brothers?“ 49 And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, "Behold My mother and My brothers! 50 "For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother." John 2:5 His mother *said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it." Mary, Mother of God

  29. Mary, Mother of God • Jeremiah 7:17-20 "Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me. 19 "Do they spite Me?" declares the LORD. "Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?" 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched."

  30. Catechism of the Catholic Church • Authority and Truth • Who is God? • Christ’s Sacrifice • Mary, Mother of God • What is Sin? • The Sacraments • The Saints

  31. 1855Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God's law; it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to him. Venial sin allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it. … (1861) If it is not redeemed by repentance and God's forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ's kingdom and the eternal death of hell What saith the Scriptures? What is Sin?

  32. Catechism of the Catholic Church • Authority and Truth • Who is God? • Christ’s Sacrifice • Mary, Mother of God • What is Sin? • The Sacraments • The Saints

  33. 774 The seven sacraments are the signs and instruments by which the Holy Spirit spreads the grace of Christ the head throughout the Church which is his Body. Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance (confession) Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, Matrimony The Sacraments

  34. 1127 Celebrated worthily in faith, the sacraments confer the grace that they signify. They are efficacious because in them Christ himself is at work: it is he who baptizes, he who acts in his sacraments in order to communicate the grace that each sacrament signifies. 1129 The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation. The Sacraments

  35. “The person who is baptized is washed from all his sins by the blood of Christ; he is received into the divine covenant, promising to devote his life to God’s holy service. He receives a right to the inheritance of eternal life. Baptism is a pledge of the individual adoption to sonship by God” (Dmitri, 29). “The Holy Mystery of Chrismation is a divinely instituted rite, in which the newly baptized believer is anointed with holy Chrism on all parts of the body in the Name of the Holy Spirit, receiving the Holy Spirit Himself in order to grow and be strengthened in the spiritual life” (Dmitri, 31). The Sacraments

  36. Catechism of the Catholic Church • Authority and Truth • Who is God? • Christ’s Sacrifice • Mary, Mother of God • What is Sin? • The Sacraments • The Saints

  37. 956The intercession of the saints. "Being more closely united to Christ, those who dwell in heaven fix the whole Church more firmly in holiness. . . . They do not cease to intercede with the Father for us, as they proffer the merits which they acquired on earth through the one mediator between God and men, Christ Jesus . . . . So by their fraternal concern is our weakness greatly helped."495 The Saints

  38. 2683 The witnesses who have preceded us into the kingdom, especially those whom the Church recognizes as saints, share in the living tradition of prayer by the example of their lives, the transmission of their writings, and their prayer today. They contemplate God, praise him and constantly care for those whom they have left on earth. When they entered into the joy of their Master, they were "put in charge of many things." Their intercession is their most exalted service to God's plan. We can and should ask them to intercede for us and for the whole world. The Saints

  39. The Saints • Jeremiah 2:28 For according to the number of your cities Are your gods, O Judah. • 18:15 ‘For My people have forgotten Me, They burn incense to worthless gods And they have stumbled from their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in bypaths, Not on a highway,

  40. The Saints • Jeremiah 51:17 All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them. 18 They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish. 19 The portion of Jacob is not like these; For the Maker of all is He, And of the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.

  41. The Saints • 2132 The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, "the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype," and "whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it." The honor paid to sacred images is a "respectful veneration," not the adoration due to God alone:

  42. Saints • Rev 22:9 But he *said to me, "Do not do that. I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book. Worship God." • Acts 14:13-15 wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds. 14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their robes and rushed out into the crowd, crying out 15 and saying, "Men, why are you doing these things? • Acts 10:25-26 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshiped him. 26 But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up; I too am just a man."

  43. Objectives • Understand the tenets of Catholicism • Identify bridges and barriers to sharing the Gospel with Catholics • Understand the other influences on Catholicism among your People Group • Explore various approaches to successfully evangelize the people

  44. Catholicism + … • Guadalupe – • Boyter Interview; Beel Paper • Ancient religions – Videos • Post-modernism

  45. Catholicism + … • Guadalupe – • Boyter Interview; Beel Paper • Ancient religions – Videos • Post-modernism

  46. Catholic + • He believes that there is something beyond what we normally experience. • He believes this “something more” is spiritual. • Spirituality must have practical application in life. • He would be open to someone being his spiritual guide. • One gains the right to be his spiritual guide by invitation. • One also gains this right to be his spiritual guide by demonstrating an undefined spirituality in their life.

  47. Objectives • Understand the tenets of Catholicism • Identify bridges and barriers to sharing the Gospel with Catholics • Understand the other influences on Catholicism among your People Group • Explore various approaches to successfully evangelize the people

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