Four Reasons The Virgin Mary Deserves More Attention In Protestant Churches

[George]

http://www.chadbird.com/blog/2016/1...eserves-more-attention-in-protestant-churches

Article sent to me by someone here on CH.

 

[Rens]

Bill again.

 

[psalms 91]

Not me but I do like the article, I agree with it just dont see raising her above others is all, dont agree with praying to her but to each their own

 

[Lamb]

I don't recall the article stating at all that she should be prayed to. Did I miss it?

 

[Rens]

Not me but I do like the article, I agree with it just dont see raising her above others is all, dont agree with praying to her but to each their own

It was just a joke. Now who would that be who sent him the link? Lol you said about iBot: must be Lamm, while iBot thanked Mark for making him look so cool.
I agree too that she gets totally no attention in the protestant church. Guess they're so afraid of worshipping her that she gets ignored.

 

[Josiah]

I largely agree....

Even in American Lutheranism, there is often an abandonment of Our Lady (not in my parish!).... my pastor explains this as a sad result of American anti-Catholicism, deeply rooted in American culture until fairly recently. Anything that smacked of Catholicism was abandoned in the hope of not offending Protestant America and lowering any "barriers" to them entering Lutheranism (the abandonment of crucifixes and "kneelers" and the Sign of the Cross and weekly Communion were other 'victims' of this). To their credit, Episcopalians/Anglicans didn't do this, but Lutherans in the USA very sadly often did. As this deep American "anti-Catholicism" faded after World War Two, Lutherans have taken up these customs once again (slowly and unevenly).

I agree that among SOME Catholics, Mary has been a problem.... and I don't hold that several of the recent RCC Marian Dogmas should be such (I don't oppose them as pious opinions, only as de fide dogma)... But it IS possible to do as Scripture says we should ("call her blessed") and hold her in esteem as the mother of Our Lord and a person of great faith - without affirming the new Marian De Fide Dogmas of the singular, individual RC Denomination and that practices/attitude of a FEW modern Catholics (whom some CATHOLICS feel are "spooky" as one of my Catholic teachers put it).

And I think it SILLY to feel that if it's Catholic, ergo it's BAD and to be avoided. We'd have to deny the Trinity, the Two Natures of Christ, public worship, Sunday worship, hymns, reading Scripture in worship, having clergy, having choirs, the New Testament, etc., etc., etc. under that silly rubric. Just because Catholics believe or do something doesn't THEREFORE make it wrong or bad.... I'm glad America has finally gotten past that silly attitude. And I think often, Protestants benefit from this! My Lutheran parish is about half ex-Catholics, I wonder how many of these would be a part of our church if we didn't have the Sacrament weekly, didn't have the liturgy, didn't embrace the Liturgical year and practices, ignored Mary, etc.? No way to know, of course.



Merry Christmas!


- Josiah

 

[Tigger]

I could be easily labelled an evangelical Catholic but the church we attend is a low church Lutheran congregation. They actually have an abstract figure on the BVM hung up in the sanctuary right now but will probably be taken down after the holidays.

 

[Wilhemena]

I am a Protestant who does not worship Mary or pray to her as the Catholics do and before I am called anti-Catholic I would like to point out that Mary was not a Catholic but a Jew just as Jesus was a Jew. What attention is Mary lacking that needs to be given to her according to our bible for we know the bible is our textbook and we should not add to it. Should we have more sermons dedicated to her even though she is not our Lord and Savior? She birthed him and was called blessed and every young gal wants to dress up as Mary in the nativity at Christmastime but how much of a role in our lives as believers should we devote to her?

 

[Lamb]

What attention is Mary lacking that needs to be given to her according to our bible for we know the bible is our textbook and we should not add to it. Should we have more sermons dedicated to her even though she is not our Lord and Savior? She birthed him and was called blessed and every young gal wants to dress up as Mary in the nativity at Christmastime but how much of a role in our lives as believers should we devote to her?

You asked a few questions that can be summed up using the article in the OP with this quote "Here are four truths about the virgin Mary that I wish would find a prominent place in more Protestant pulpits, songs, and classrooms. Each of them, by telling us more about Mary, actually tell us more about Jesus."

The more we learn about the Mary of the bible the more we learn about her Son.

 

[Tigger]

Has anyone else seen this YouTube video before. It really solidified my pious opinion concerning the BVM. It is all gathered from scripture although using typology as its method of discovery.

 

[George]

It's a good article. I know someone won't view Mary as highly as some do, but it's also not fully right in my opinion as I have heard some to refer to her as simply a dead woman. I mean, I can't really understand why some don't seem to really consider what she did, which was ultimately bear God in flesh.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I am a Protestant who does not worship Mary or pray to her as the Catholics do and before I am called anti-Catholic I would like to point out that Mary was not a Catholic but a Jew just as Jesus was a Jew. What attention is Mary lacking that needs to be given to her according to our bible for we know the bible is our textbook and we should not add to it. Should we have more sermons dedicated to her even though she is not our Lord and Savior? She birthed him and was called blessed and every young gal wants to dress up as Mary in the nativity at Christmastime but how much of a role in our lives as believers should we devote to her?

Blessed Mary is a Catholic now

 

[Lamb]

Blessed Mary is a Catholic now

Not Roman. Perhaps small c catholic meaning universal.

 

[psalms 91]

Yeah that I will accept it seems that the definitionm gets confused a lot

 

[MoreCoffee]

Not Roman. Perhaps small c catholic meaning universal.

Heavenly Catholic. I suspect that the majority of Catholics are heavenly. We have a "democracy" that includes them. They get a vote on everything doctrinal and moral

 

[Lamb]

Impeach Mary?

 

[MoreCoffee]

Impeach Mary?

Never may that happen!

I say Impeach Donald Trump before it is too late

 

[George]

lol anyways to the original topic. What does everyone think of the article?

 

[Josiah]

lol anyways to the original topic. What does everyone think of the article?

See post # 6.


A blessed New Year to you and yours, George.

 

[George]

See post # 6.


A blessed New Year to you and yours, George.

I'll check it out, and the same to you Josiah.