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Response To A Question on Buddhist Meditation

· Fr. Michael Gillis 14 Leave a Comment on %s
A reader wrote that he had begun to discover himself through Buddhist meditation despite 25 years of Orthodox Christian practice. Ā He asked for my perspective. Ā This is what I wrote him. Dear E, I donā€™t know enough about Buddhism or specifically about Buddhist meditation to make any sort of intelligent comment.Ā  Neither do I know you personally nor your experience as an Orthodox Christian nor your actual practice of meditation.Ā  Therefore, Iā€¦

Prophetic Ministry

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I have been thinking lately about the prophetic ministry. Particularly, I have been thinking about how this ministry is manifest in the Church. Coming from a Pentecostal background, I have a lot of experience in what the prophetic ministry is not. Prophetic ministry does not include utterances in King James English or ecstatic proclamations preceded by ā€œThus sayeth the Lord.ā€ Nor is prophetic ministry about prediction. Based on the example of theā€¦