Are there any liberal Protestant churches that look, sound, smell, and feel like a Catholic church?
April 5, 2011 by refl
Filed under Church stained
I’m looking for a liberal church, so Catholicism it out of the question, but I like much about Catholicism like confession, the big beautiful churches, priests in vestments, altar in the center, incense, statues, icons, stained glass, Jesus being literally present in the Lord’s Supper, etc.
Are there any liberal Protestant churches (i.e. gay friendly, not anti-woman, pro-choice, feed the homeless) kind of churches that on the outside feel like a Catholic church? I can go and just pretend to believe what they believe while really holding my own Catholic beliefs as long as the place looks, sounds, smells, and feels Catholic.
Thank you.
Oh, and they can’t be too Protestant. I don’t like those churches that put emphasis on “being saved” like they’ve gotten a get out of jail free card. I don’t believe in “sola scriptura” or “sola fide”.
So you want all of the “holy atmosphere” and none of the obedience?
Catholics feed the homeless too ya know. Always have. Before it was “in” even.
And I’ll make it easy for you – no liberal church believes that Jesus is literally present in the Lord’s Supper. That’s why they’re liberal, they don’t accept any solid doctrine but believe whatever is popular at the time.
Episcopalian.
oral.
I understand that the Anglican church in Canada is fairly liberal…but I’ve never went there and don’t know how different the Anglican church is across the globe..
Great.
Another “Christian” looking for a church that suits her — rather than suiting herself to a church and committing herself to its teachings.
You’ve got things backwards, sister. The church is not supposed to tailor itself to you, and neither is God. It’s supposed to go the other way around.
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Lutheranism is pretty much Catholicism’s cousin, and some of the branches are pretty conservative, but ELCA is fairly liberal. It doesn’t have the priests/confession stuff, that’s strictly Catholic I think. But some have some of the other atmosphere things.
The Episcopalian Church. I second that.
In Canada the United Church is fairly progressive. The Anglicans accept gays too.
In general though Protestant Churches are not going to be as “lavish” as Catholic ones. That was the whole point of the Protestant Reformation — to make a significant break from Catholicism — including doing away with fancy stained-glass, big fancy alters, incense, lighting candles etc.
Sounds like you want to play Catholic Church without the substance
Catholicsim is not anti woman and abortion is profoundly anti woman
We were feeding the homeless long before the other groups broke off
“All the pagentry and none of the guilt”
Try the Episcopal Church
but why not try to seekGod and His way instead?
You can find some Anglican churches on the high side of middle which might fit the bill – I can think of one not far from where I’m sitting right now. But the ones which try to out catholic the Catholics are as conservative as you can get.
Sorry Jesus is only literally present in a Catholic Church. We make our choices it seems.