i do want to take a moment and thank you for your ecumenical kindness. one of the most beautiful and attractive concepts of protestantism to me is the general ability to agree to disagree. i am a lutheran, and naturally many thing i believe a calvinist or presbyterian or methodist or anglican might disagree with. yet even with these disagreements, even believing entirely that my tradition is the correct and orthodox one, the doctrine of the invisible church means that misguided as they are, they are still brothers in christ guided by a saving faith. that very same title goes to you and my catholic brothers. i believe the roman catholic church has fallen to many accretions, but how can i truthfully say that my roman brothers don't have a saving faith when i can clearly see the holy spirit moving among the catholics?  of course i have my doubts about roman dogma, but the catholics are brothers in christ regardless.
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