Guidelines for Discussion

The aim of this blog is to examine the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church’s claim (as found on its website) to stand:

squarely on the historic, undisputed teachings of orthodox Christianity as taught by Jesus, spread by the Apostles, defended by the Patriarchs of the Early Church, expressed in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, and exemplified by the undivided Catholic Church during the first millennium of its existence.

Anyone is welcome to participate in the discussion along those lines. As a Catholic and former member of the ICCEC, I am especially interested in those areas where these churches’ claims intersect—i.e. the Catholic Church’s claim to be the true Church and the ICCEC’s claim to be a valid and licit apostolic church, not in schism, but fully integrated into the one, holy, and catholic Church as delineated by the ICCEC’s own standard of orthodoxy (quoted above). So, that is the train of thought that I will be pursuing. Any other discussion is welcome, permitted that it pertains to the ICCEC’s claims or its doctrines, and not to the people making those claims. Any comments that stray from this focus and into naming specific people in the ICCEC in a negative light, describing moral failings in the ICCEC, or, are, in general, not animated by a basic spirit of charity beholden to all men and women who claim allegiance to Christ, will either be edited or deleted.