Evangelical Epiphany
Crusaders and others rediscover Orthodoxy
Virginia Hubbard Nieuwsma
April 1, 1996
Becoming Orthodox by Peter Gilquist (Conciliar Press, Revised Edition 1992), 191 pp.
Coming Home edited by Peter Gilquist (Conciliar Press, 2nd edition, 1995), 159 pp.
It is A great irony in late twentieth-century Christendom that, while some churches are stumbling over themselves to update their services, or even introduce laughing, barking, and chaotic falling down as practices of the Spirit, simultaneously there is a quiet, inexorable exodus of Christians out of all this user-friendly, charismatic excitement for the nearly 2000-year-old Orthodox Church.
When a group of former Campus Crusade leaders set out in the late 1960s on a "phantom search for the perfect church," they never dreamed they would one day wind up on the doorstep of the Orthodox, begging admittance. Becoming Orthodox is the story of how this happened, and Coming Home is a companion book outlining the spiritual journeys of eighteen Protestant pastors who bypassed Canterbury and Rome for the East. Both stimulating releases hail from the new-kid-on-the-publishing-block, Conciliar Press of Ben Lomond, California.
In Becoming Orthodox, Father Peter Gilquist, head of the department of missions and evangelism for the Antiochian diocese, introduces the reader to a litany of frustrations familiar to many evangelicals: the sense that there must be more to worship than a few choruses and a three-point sermon, more to church leadership than a few administrative posts lacking real authority to discipline or admonish, more to spirituality than dry theology or rehashed how-to tomes. He and his fellow Crusade associates, sensing the inherent weaknesses of being "para-church," set out on a hunt for the apostolic church they had always been told had apostasized.
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