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Metropolitan Jonah<\/p><\/div>
\nMetropolitan Jonah – Remembering The Least of These<\/strong><\/p>\n

Met. Jonah:<\/p>\n

In Batumi<\/a> – at the end of the Soviet period about 15 years ago, there were only two or three churches that were operative in the province\u2026those that were operating were basically mostly empty and 80% of the population was Muslim. After 15 years and one zealous bishop they baptized 80% of the population into the Orthodox Church\u2026they built 60 churches\u2026they built a dozen monasteries\u2026and how did they do this? First they built hospitals, first they built schools, first they built orphanages and nursing homes\u2026and they showed the Church cares\u2026.and it\u2019s palpable. The love of Christ..Christian charity\u2026can turn back the tide of Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Listen here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/specials\/caa2010\/caa_2010-metjonah_least.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n
Source: Ancient Faith Radio<\/a><\/p>\n
Q and A Following Met. Jonah\u2019s Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n
Met. Jonah:<\/p>\n
There are certainly two very distinct models.* And I believe one of the reasons it is so important for us to have a full voice in this whole process is so that our vision, that really is our inheritance, going back all the way to St. Innocent and before, that we have a single united church in this country, that has a single synod of bishops, that\u2019s very important\u2026what we need is a single synod of bishops that elects it\u2019s own primate and\u2026 that is I believe the message that we need to convey to the rest of the church in this country. That\u2019s also a message that I believe resonates not only in the OCA, but with the Antiochians, and with the Serbs and the Romanians and the Bulgarians and with the great bulk of faithful in the Greek Orthodox Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
*Ed: The two models are 1) the American missionary model, and 2) the Constantinopolitan centralized control\/feudal monarchy model.<\/em><\/p>\n
Listen here:<\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/specials\/caa2010\/caa_2010-metjonah_questions.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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