Reasons to NOT become Orthodox

A MESSAGE FROM SAINT POLYCARP OF SMYRNA CHAPEL, SMYRNA, TENNESSEE

REASONS TO NOT BECOME ORTHODOX

- If you are seeking a user friendly church

- If you want a generic one size fits all Christianity that doesn’t offend anyone or require too much conformity

- If you don’t want to hear doctrine

- If you are looking for a church to meet YOUR needs

- If you are looking for a church with certain kinds of programs, groups and activities

- If you are looking for contemporary worship and music

- If you are looking for exciting sermons

- If you are looking for a charismatic preacher/leader

- If you are looking for something comfortable, easy or enjoyable that doesn’t interfere with your chosen lifestyle or the norms of society

- If you want to be a part of the latest fad, movement or religious guru.

THE ONLY REASONS TO BECOME ORTHODOX

- If you are tired of the crazy world of contemporary "Christianity" with all it fads, contradictions, changes and insanity

- If you are hungry for unchanging and uncompromising truth

- If you believe there is one Lord, one Faith, one Christ, one Baptism, one Church and one Hope

- If you believe the Christian Faith cannot change to accommodate societal norms

- If you want to be a part of the same Christian Faith as was held by the saints, martyrs and confessors for the first 1,000 years of church history and is still held by the faithful in all the world

- If you are willing to learn humility and set aside your own ideas, theologies and agenda in order to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit that has spoken one Faith and created one Church in unbroken succession since the time of the apostles.

 - If you desire something more authentic and real than frivolous self-help books or funny and entertaining sermons with easy steps to being a winner and successful.

- If you desire something more authentic and deeper than an easy-believism of instant salvation with a sinners prayer and the assurance of eternal security henceforward

- If you desire worship in Spirit and in Truth that transcends the worldly and the secular

- If you become convinced by serious study of Church History and the guidance of the Holy Spirit that the Orthodox Christian Church is the one and same Church as that which has existed in unbroken succession since the time of the apostles