Fission or Fusion? A Call for Christian Unity with Nathan Jacobs

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Jacobs is a renaissance man. As an artist, author, philosopher, professor and filmmaker, Dr. Jacobs is truly an inspirational, informative and interesting individual. He joins Hank Hanegraaff for a series of podcasts seeking to better explain Eastern Orthodoxy and explain away many of the most common misconceptions people have about Eastern Orthodoxy. In this podcast they discuss Hank’s passionate desire for the Christian world to experience fusion in the essentials of the historic Christian faith as an answer to the Lord’s High Priestly Prayer that called for unity among the followers of Christ.

Topics discussed include: Hank discusses his passionate desire for Christianity to experience fusion in the essentials of the Christian faith as an answer to the Lord’s High Priestly Prayer calling for unity among Christians (0:50); how do different denominations in Christianity see one another? (8:20); not viewing the Christian life as a binary action, but as a journey toward union with God (17:05); the importance of humility in the Christian faith (23:40); baptismal regeneration (28:00); how to view the film Becoming Truly Human by Nathan Jacobs (33:20). https://www.equip.org/product/becoming-truly-human-dvd/

Learn more in chapter six “Fusion: The Secret to Global Transformation” in Hank’s newest book Truth Matters, Life Matters More. https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-truth-matters-life-matters-more/

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0:00.0	Well, have you been following the series that I've been doing with my friend Nathan Jacobs
0:27.3	on the stumbling blocks between what evangelicals believe or think that Orthodoxy teaches?
0:36.2	We're talking about how you can remove those stumbling blocks
0:39.4	by having a cogent and compelling conversation and explaining some of the things that oftentimes are
0:47.3	misunderstood. One of the things I do want to talk about in sort of concluding this series is the notion of fusion.
0:58.4	There's a quote in my book, Truth Matters, Life Matters more, by Metropolitan Callistus Ware, who said this.
1:05.5	He said, orthodoxy desires unity and diversity, not uniformity. Harmony and freedom, not absorption.
1:16.1	There is room in the Orthodox Church for many different cultural patterns, for many different
1:23.3	ways of worship, and even for many different systems of outward organization, yet with one
1:29.8	vital exception. Authentic Christianity insists upon unity in matters of faith. Before there can be
1:39.2	reunion among Christians, there must be, first of all, full agreement in faith.
1:45.4	As I have consistently communicated during the entirety in my ministry, I'm not talking for
1:49.7	myself, at least in the writing I'm doing in my book, there can be liberty and non-essentials and
1:56.0	charity in all else, but there must be unity in the faith once for all delivered to the saints.
2:01.6	To seek unity at the cost of essential matters of faith is ten amount to throwing away the kernel of a nut and keeping the shell.
2:09.6	While we are to direct our energies toward the end game of fusion, we are never to do so at the expense of essential faith and practice.
2:20.3	The reason I want to talk about this is when we started doing this series together,
2:27.3	a long time ago it seems now, although we've been doing this one session after another,
2:32.3	we talked about how the church at one time in history was one church.
2:39.3	Then you had the great schism of 1054. 500 years later, you had the schism in the Western
2:45.8	church between the reformers and Rome. And since then, there has been a continual fissuring.
2:54.1	So there are so many different permeations of Christianity.
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