The same can be said of most Evangelical and Protestant churches. Because of this, Msgr. Pope's attempts to presume it is the Catholic church which best mirrors the early church spoken of in the book of Acts is what I would label as disingenuous or wrong.
The same can be said of most Evangelical and Protestant churches. Msgr. Pope’s attempts to presume it is the Catholic church which best mirrors the early church spoken of in the book of Acts is what I would label as disingenuous or wrong.
I agree. From my personal experience, I would say that the Lutheran Church (LCMS) mirrors the early church every bit as much as the Catholic Church does. Other churches, such as the Methodist, Prebyterian and Anglican, also mirror the early church. There are some modern churches though, that are at variance with the early church. I have attended services with my daughter that were very thin on liturgy. There were a couple of songs, a very brief bible reading and sermon, handing out of wafers and grape juice, a half hour of announcements and what’s going on in the church, then a closing song. While there were some good thoughts in the sermons, I was left with a feeling of wanting more. An Our Father, a Doxology, prayers of any kind.