Lost Sheep Church: Established First - written by David Charles Kramer
Lost Sheep Church — Established First By forty-seven, David had learned that Christianity came with many gifts: Grace. Prayer. Scripture. Community. And, eventually, a flowchart. Catholics had one. Orthodox Christians had one. Protestants had several thousand, many of which existed because somebody objected to somebody else’s flowchart. Every chart seemed to end in roughly the same place: After two thousand years of confusion, congratulations. You have finally found us. David had spent enough time studying denominations to develop what he called Ecclesiastical Vertigo . He loved Catholics. Their churches could make a grown man lower his voice before anybody asked him to. Their prayers had outlived kingdoms. Their saints had written theology while imprisoned, exiled, starving, or hiding in caves, which made David feel slightly embarrassed whenever weak Wi-Fi affected his spiritual condition. He loved the Orthodox too. The Orthodox could take eleven words— “Lord Jesus Ch...