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“Some truths are so profound that they must be repeated over and over until we hear them for the first time.” That’s the power of liturgy.

It’s almost like the clergy wearing an actual uniform is a good thing

People need to stop ragging on my boi Constantine.

I just ordered the 1662 Book of Common Prayer today. Yesterday, I attended my first Anglican Church service. I grew up Baptist (parents) and Methodist (grandparents) and, as an adult, mostly attended non-denominational. I married a non-practicing Roman Catholic. I wanted to get back into church on Sundays and wanted my husband to attend with me. I can't participate in a Roman Catholic church, but I was also disillusioned with modern Christian churches for various reasons. I researched, and Anglican seemed to be a good fit for both of us since Anglicans are both Catholic and Protestant. We are both looking forward to going back next Sunday. For anyone who is in the situation we are in our marriage, where you come from different backgrounds, or if you are disillusioned with the modern Christian church, I would tell you to try Anglican. But just as there are in many churches today, you still need to research because there is division even within the Anglican Church.

The Pew Edition of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer has a blue cover and is larger than the green edition. I ordered if from InterVarsity Press. It is wonderful! I am so glad you pointed out this wonderful prayer book.

I noticed you used terms like 'inerrant' and 'infallible' when refferring to scripture. From my understanding these are fairly new terms applied to scripture that seem to end up in a very literalist reading. From your view, is holding scripture as sacred, inspired, authoritative but not inerrant a viable position for a Christian?

Apparently ANCA has been in talks with Rome discussing full communion . Have no idea how true or if true how far it has progressed or could progress . Apparently only those parishes or diocese which don’t ordain women .

I think it's a vestige of Roman Catholicism, and it's idolatrous.

Out of curiosity, did you look into Eastern Orthodoxy at all? If so, what made you go Anglican instead? I’m currently trying to decide between the two right now

I love this video. Really gets to the heart of what liturgy is about: embodying the gospel. And that includes the part where we are all sinners in need of God's mercy, without which we would be hopeless.

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Loving this series

Great stuff

WOW! There are no Anglican churches in my area.

Great video. I worked out an outline 2 days ago for a video along the lines of “why I love the BCP” and you’ve done a great job hitting many of the same points (and some I didn’t think of or notice).

Do you affirm the seventh ecumenical council?

I have a lot of respect for the Anglican Church and it’s high view of liturgy. I’m a nondenominational Christian. We live our faith differently but one thing we need to remember is that we are all still brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. And remember wether you’re in a very low church or a really high church like Anglican or Lutheran, we are all evangelicals, evangelicals are not only low church nondenominational, Baptists, and Classic Pentecostals.

Great video; I’m another evangelical who has “walked the Canterbury trail”, and so I’m happy to see your similar content; looking forward to more.

I believe God wants our own prayers. He wants a relationship with us & everyone is different. Our prayers should be different & from the heart. Just my opinion.

So happy to discover your channel! Thank you!

remember in uk algicans were catholic, before henry the 8th, who was so aragant to make himself head of the church anglicans kept a lot from us catholices , your alla break away group from rome and catholics we genuflection when we come into church , ie kneel before the cross , at communion we make the sighn of the cross as a alter server i some times carry the cross, some times the incence fist then the cross , then akalights candle holders then other servers , then the priest leading up to the high alter nothing super natural what ?? we welcome our lord jesus christ at communion , we say the rosery , anglicans dont , we say in the service hail mary full of gtrace the lord is with thee , we honour our mother mary , anglicans dont we honour saints have saints days in uk we catholics sufferd so much under the anglicans , priests were put to death if they gave communion , guy falkes was a catholic , there called english martys, the anglican church has a lot to answear for the wrongs it did to the catholic church , ie sacking , plundering our churches of there wealth , crosses icons amen

Love this!

Great explanation

Solid thanks for this. I’m just kinda “looking” right now but I’m a happy Presby

Have you got a video about how to use the Book of Common Prayer for personal devotion daily office?

Thank you for sharing! I’m looking forward to more of your future videos!

Just wondering how you made the decision to join the ANCA vs some of the other continuing Anglican churches such as the G-4.

Our Anglican priest wears jeans and a t shirt i've never seen him even wear a clerical collar. This is not usual in Australia

Thanks for this, Evan!

What's your thoughts on the Catholic LOTH/Christian prayer?

Congratulations for joining a liturgical church.

Because it’s cool to look like a wizard . 😀. But seriously a very good video. Your point about entering a different dimension resonates with my experience . And for me, the higher the Church experience the more “other” it is. And your point about the vestments “hiding” the personality of the pastor is a good one

My pastor doesn't dress like a wizard. He dresses like a rizzard 😎 I'm years ahead of myself with the dad jokes.

Glad to see you back. Wondered where you went, but not a surprise given you're earlier videos. Will follow

He’s back!!

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I like many things about Anglicanism. Unfortunately I left one I attended as they held the Book of Common Prayer over the Bible..Priest had a female Deacon do the preaching. He trained at a woke college. May be different in other states. No outreach. Evangelism not happening. In Timothy's time the leaders called missionary Bishops went from church to church strengthening each like Paul the Apostle did! Pentecostalism has always been in the Church. Anglican mission I attended had no sense of community. People were nice but as a single older man and a veteran I never felt close to any..

My jaw dropped, didn't know if or when you'd ever upload again 😅 very cool! 😎 Very relatable stuff at the beginning. I find it difficult to communicate to others how and why I went from non-denom to Anglican. Nobody really gets it unless they also went from "low church" to "high church" in some way. Everyone else is either suspicious, or thinks I made the move purely because of style preferences or other very superficial reasons. At the end of the day I think the biggest reason is need. I'm not Anglican now because I'm a super-Christian who reached enlightenment and is now smarter than all the low-church dum-dums. No, I came here because I needed more. I wasn't finding it where I came from. I had to go "further up and further in." I can't do this on my own, or even just in my somewhat insular local church. We need the whole body, we need the roots, we need the fullness of the faith.

Evan, thanks for the great video. I am from a Charismatic Catholic background, also practicing Anglican Daily Office. It's true that the Daily Office is extraordinary. In fact, God himself directed me to use the Daily Office. As a fellow Pentecostal, you would understand when I say "God directs" me. I learned to pray intercession and read the Bible regularly from the Daily Office, two things I really long to be able to do in my Christian life. What's extraordinary is that when I worship in a prayer meeting once a week, I really feel that the Daily Office has somehow made me very close with the Holy Spirit, perhaps through the psalms and intercessory prayers. As a Catholic Charismatic, doing this Daily Office really blesses me. Because my native language is Indonesian, while the Anglican church in Indonesia has very few congregations, I compiled my own daily office from English BCP sources on the internet. I translated it with the help of an Indonesian Bible, because as you said, 80-85 percent of the Daily Office are Bible quotations, so most of the materials in the Daily Office can be recomposed using Indonesian Bible quotations. I base my Daily Office prayers from BCP 1979, but for the lectionary I use BCP from ACNA 2019. For some basic prayers and confessions of faith I use the versions of what are already used by Indonesian Roman Catholics. Even in compiling this, my own personal Indonesian Daily Office, I felt God's extraordinary guidance. He really wants me to practice this Daily Office, to worship dan praise Him.

I use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the ASB1080.

I'm a Particular (Reformed) Baptist that uses the Book of Common Prayer as my daily prayer book. Soli Deo Gloria!

Just stumbled onto this video and really appreciated it! I come from an evangelical background and ended up leaving my church years ago for many reasons, mainly because it felt so over simplified, ultra individualistic, and suspicious of anything "rote"/non-spontaneous. I don't remember being overtly taught that other denominations were "questionable" (at best), but when I left, it was my denomination or nothing at all. I had no concept of any other way of being a true Christian. Not long afterwards, I read "Evangelical Is Not Enough," which blew holes through my inherited suspicion of liturgical prayer and worship. I probably would have refused to even *read* a Book of Common Prayer, much less use it, back in the churches of my youth. After closing the door on Christianity (as I knew it), I never imagined going to church again - beyond weddings, funerals, or visiting beautiful or historical churches just for the aesthetic. Fast forward 20+ years. I really wanted to get back to God, but couldn't stomach the denominations of my youth. In fact, I wasn't sure I could stand *any* church that claimed to be part of a denomination. Then I found an Anglican (ACNA) church, and I have never looked back. Our church uses the 2019 Book of Common Prayer. There are copies in the back of every pew, and I bought a nice leather bound copy for myself, but I am still getting used to it. (I suspect that's true for a lot of other former Evangelicals in my church!) Your video really hit the nail on the head of why having a collected book of prayers (among other things) is so beautiful.

Does scripture confirm the concept of Jesus having two nature? I don't think so. Jesus said his miracles were from the Father in him doing the work. So there was a Kenosis, a losing of his own miraculous attributes. But Jesus always maintained his identity of the Logos. That never changed, but his Logos spirit was transformed into that of a man. This idea of two natures is really Nestorian and doesn't work. Partial human knowledge would be obliterated by omniscience.

Very good. I would also add I use my body to make the sign of the cross at certain times to show the importance of the cross in my life and show respect to the Holy Trinity. Likewise, I bow when the name of Jesus Christ is mentioned in the liturgy, I cross my head, my lips, and my heart when the Holy Gospel is read in the church, and I profoundly bow during the Nicene Creed when the incarnation and death are mentioned - rising from that at the mention of the Resurrection! YES! We worship with our bodies ( like clapping, raising hands, shouting, moving- things we did (do) in our background) :) It's all good.

The liturgy to me... the words are rich, and deep, and time-tested, and cross-cultural. They are powerful. Also- if I am beat up by the world, exhausted from life - I can enter into liturgical worship and not have to construct my own worship... and the Spirit will rejuvenate me. I can relax and let the worship of God minister to me. It is solid. It is based. It is grounding.

Hi Evan - are you the H.D. Sustar, Bob Sustar, ( Gastonia, NC) Sustars? COG?

Nobody was asking what a prayer book was. They knew that. But thanks for explaining. Nice video.

I like the words, "my personal piety," I will adopt that. And yes, I realize now that truly, The Lord taught us to pray, and St. Paul's exhorts us to pray continually.

This may sound ignorant but how do know which reading to use ?

Yes she is! Also, Mary is the Ark of the Covenant!