Wow! That point at the 26:26 was so powerful. It is easy to be upset when you discover the ancient church and feel like you been cheated or misled by Protestant/evangelical/RC churches. Learning to appreciate the seeds planted is important while also processing the loss of past faith experience is tough.
“Learn about your faith so that you can give it away to somebody else which is the only way you can truly keep it”…. a thought provoking ending to a beautiful and wonderful conversation! Thank you Father John and Father Barnabas ❤️❤️
As a convert, I too am so thankful for the emphasis on Scripture in protestant churches. Combining that foundation with the Liturgical I feel that Orthodoxy has brought the fullness of the faith. It is so deep and powerful it overwhelms me sometimes. I can also relate to Father Barnabas as a non-Greek in a Greek church. We were Chrismated in an OCA (Orthodox Church in America) congregation. When we moved, our options were 3 Greek churches. People in the first church we visited were very confused that we were not Greek! The church that became our home has more converts, but some of the lifelong members have been very surprised when I told them I'm not Greek!
The comments about the sweet Greek lady who asked why you were there were lovely.. I began my journey to the Orthodox Church in Russia, and in Russian churches in the West.. I met some of those questions. But i spent the first SERIOUS times of services in the Greek church in my hometown when i was there for an extended stay because of needs of my parents. I fell in love with almost everything there as i participated in the services.. even with many things yet to learn. I began to say to them to please forgive me, but i just had to tell them that i didn't know if they understood how PRECIOUS what they had was and how MUCH those around them needed it. I tried not to offend. I was just so full of joy of FINALLY finding what i had been hungering for.. By that time, NOTHING was going to keep me from asking to be received into the Church. No matter what glances i might have gotten from those who didn't understand, but whom i would grow to love as i never had loved fellow church members before. Glory to God!
Sorry he lost his mother. I lost my mother in September 2021 due to COVID, and she was a believer so I am not separated from here either in that way, what a blessing!
I love Father Barnabas! I, too, grew up Protestant. I think my church was non-denominational, and they could never answer the tough questions. But we loved Jesus and the Bible. I read the entire Bible by the time I was 9, and I had a lot of questions because I took it very seriously. After middle school, I became agnostic, atheist, dabbled in Buddhism, magick, etc., always seeking the truth of life. I have recently, in my 30s, been called back to Christ, and the truth of Orthodoxy is speaking to my soul in a way I didn't know was possible.
I am an evangelical protestant, and my issue with the intercession of saints isn't that I believe the people who are with God are dead. The problem I have is the question: how do you know that they can hear us?
Ross, the answer lies in the question "How do you know Christ hears your prayers?" Jesus Christ is not dead. He is alive and a living Person can hear your cries. Everyone who is a disciple of Jesus is "in Christ" according to St. Paul. So, everyone who is "in Christ" is able to still maintain communion with everyone else who is "in Christ." Death cannot break the communion of the people of God. Death is defeated by Jesus. Death cannot separate.
@@FaithEncouragedTV My answer to your question is that Christ can hear our prayers because he is God therefore has the following properties: He is all knowing (therefore knows our intentions), he is all present (therefore can literally hear our prayers), and he is all powerful (therefore can act on our prayers). And he retains these because he is still living. Since the saints do not have these properties while they are on Earth, I see no reason to believe they do now that they are "in Christ".
@@rosswalenciak3739 Hi Ross, because the Saints partake in the divine nature, stemming from a communication of properties that occurred when Christ took on human nature, meaning that they are not limited to what we consider the hard limits of human faculties now
Orthodox y is not easy to follow , but it is following the ten commandments and reading the bible as it was written . We fast and pray and it hasn't changed to suit modern fashion. Orthodoxy is love, forgiveness unconditional love love. If you can't forgive you should not take holy communion.Orthodoxy is if practiced right a deep and beautiful religion. I love it.
Father Barbara's I love you.Barnabas, St Barnabas was jew living in Cyprus ,he is buried here, we owe our religion to him and he is our patron Saint.This Island is a very holy one , unfortunately we have the moslems that want to wipe us out, but here for the grace of God we still survive. Come to Cyprus and visit our old Monesteries. Kykou up on the mountain, there you will feel God especially in the spring with the mist covering it. Orthodoxy is love.
yes , this is remain of orthodox church of Britain. When William the conqueror came with his Norman slaughters - he brought roman catholicism from barbaric Frankia
God works in mysterious ways.He is using protestant theologians who knows scripture to become orthodox as a way of sharing Gospel with the orthodox who are clueless!
I am also a former Pentecostal who became Orthodox in 2015. But now I will return to evangelism, because I got to know Orthodoxy deeply and discovered many errors and lies. If any traditional church has a legitimate right to claim to have ecclesiological fullness, it is the Roman Catholic Church!! This man is one of those who was fascinated by the romanticism of the Eastern churches!! I thank God that I deeply understood this church and its spirit. This person is deceived, and he thinks that he has found the peak of truth, but if he remains a seeker until the end and does not allow himself to be complacent, another disappointment awaits him and he does not know it yet ;)
@@leo11190 CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE “The Lord says to Peter: ‘I say to you,’ he says, ‘that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.’ . . . On him [Peter] he builds the Church, and to him he gives the command to feed the sheep [John 21:17], and although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single chair [cathedra], and he established by his own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity. Indeed, the others were that also which Peter was [i.e., apostles], but a primacy is given to Peter, whereby it is made clear that there is but one Church and one chair. So too, all [the apostles] are shepherds, and the flock is shown to be one, fed by all the apostles in single-minded accord. If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he [should] desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?” (The Unity of the Catholic Church 4; 1st edition [A.D. 251]) CYRIL OF JERUSALEM “The Lord is loving toward men, swift to pardon but slow to punish. Let no man despair of his own salvation. Peter, the first and foremost of the apostles, denied the Lord three times before a little servant girl, but he repented and wept bitterly” (Catechetical Lectures 2:19 [A.D. 350]). “[Simon Magus] so deceived the city of Rome that Claudius erected a statue of him. . . . While the error was extending itself, Peter and Paul arrived, a noble pair and the rulers of the Church, and they set the error aright. . . . [T]hey launched the weapon of their like-mindedness in prayer against the Magus, and struck him down to earth. It was marvelous enough, and yet no marvel at all, for Peter was there-he that carries about the keys of heaven [Matt. 16:19]” (ibid., 6:14). “In the power of the same Holy Spirit, Peter, both the chief of the apostles and the keeper of the keys of the kingdom of heaven, in the name of Christ healed Aeneas the paralytic at Lydda, which is now called Diospolis [Acts 9:32-34]” (ibid., 17:27). JOHN CHRYSOSTOM “Jesus said to Peter, ‘Feed my sheep’. Why does He pass over the others and speak of the sheep to Peter? He was the chosen one of the Apostles, the mouth of the disciples, the head of the choir. For this reason Paul went up to see him rather than the others. And also to show him that he must have confidence now that his denial had been purged away. He entrusts him with the rule [prostasia] over the brethren. . . . If anyone should say ‘Why then was it James who received the See of Jerusalem?’, I should reply that He made Peter the teacher not of that see but of the whole world.” (Homilies on John, 88.1). I can go on and on. is it enough?
@@tradertrader8838 I fail to see in those quotes anything that is specific to Peter being the only authority. What I see is the importance of the papacy, but they left the faith and excommunicated themselves
Catholicism is not Christian . He is. Father of who ? His kids ? He is not to be called father . Being catholic is no different than being a Pentecostal . Works salvation. Which is a false Gospel so what’s the difference . This man is not of God , he knows not God if he believes. Mary leads sinners to Jesus . He is a deceiver and a fraud . If any individual believes Mary answers prayers they are deceived . Lies
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Hello John by any chance do you have or know one that talks about coming out of sabbath keepers to orthodoxy?
This was an awesome testimony cuz I’m Pentecostal looking at Orthodoxy heavily thank you Father Barnabas !
"I'm Orthodox because of those treasures Pentecostalism gave me as a young man" AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Wow! That point at the 26:26 was so powerful. It is easy to be upset when you discover the ancient church and feel like you been cheated or misled by Protestant/evangelical/RC churches. Learning to appreciate the seeds planted is important while also processing the loss of past faith experience is tough.
“Learn about your faith so that you can give it away to somebody else which is the only way you can truly keep it”…. a thought provoking ending to a beautiful and wonderful conversation! Thank you Father John and Father Barnabas ❤️❤️
As a convert, I too am so thankful for the emphasis on Scripture in protestant churches. Combining that foundation with the Liturgical I feel that Orthodoxy has brought the fullness of the faith. It is so deep and powerful it overwhelms me sometimes.
I can also relate to Father Barnabas as a non-Greek in a Greek church. We were Chrismated in an OCA (Orthodox Church in America) congregation. When we moved, our options were 3 Greek churches. People in the first church we visited were very confused that we were not Greek! The church that became our home has more converts, but some of the lifelong members have been very surprised when I told them I'm not Greek!
The comments about the sweet Greek lady who asked why you were there were lovely.. I began my journey to the Orthodox Church in Russia, and in Russian churches in the West.. I met some of those questions. But i spent the first SERIOUS times of services in the Greek church in my hometown when i was there for an extended stay because of needs of my parents. I fell in love with almost everything there as i participated in the services.. even with many things yet to learn. I began to say to them to please forgive me, but i just had to tell them that i didn't know if they understood how PRECIOUS what they had was and how MUCH those around them needed it.
I tried not to offend. I was just so full of joy of FINALLY finding what i had been hungering for..
By that time, NOTHING was going to keep me from asking to be received into the Church. No matter what glances i might have gotten from those who didn't understand, but whom i would grow to love as i never had loved fellow church members before.
Glory to God!
This was so informative and interesting, I will be studying Eastern Orthodox more and more, thanks for this interview! Blessings!
Loved this discussion, Lord bless you both
Fascinating about his friend who gave the book by kallistos ware having a dream about Orthodoxy
Sorry he lost his mother. I lost my mother in September 2021 due to COVID, and she was a believer so I am not separated from here either in that way, what a blessing!
Thank you.
I love Father Barnabas! I, too, grew up Protestant. I think my church was non-denominational, and they could never answer the tough questions. But we loved Jesus and the Bible. I read the entire Bible by the time I was 9, and I had a lot of questions because I took it very seriously.
After middle school, I became agnostic, atheist, dabbled in Buddhism, magick, etc., always seeking the truth of life.
I have recently, in my 30s, been called back to Christ, and the truth of Orthodoxy is speaking to my soul in a way I didn't know was possible.
Father B, it was wonderful to hear your complete back story. Thank you for sharing.
I am an evangelical protestant, and my issue with the intercession of saints isn't that I believe the people who are with God are dead. The problem I have is the question: how do you know that they can hear us?
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Fr Josiah Trenham discusses this question. God bless you.
Ross, the answer lies in the question "How do you know Christ hears your prayers?" Jesus Christ is not dead. He is alive and a living Person can hear your cries. Everyone who is a disciple of Jesus is "in Christ" according to St. Paul. So, everyone who is "in Christ" is able to still maintain communion with everyone else who is "in Christ." Death cannot break the communion of the people of God. Death is defeated by Jesus. Death cannot separate.
@@FaithEncouragedTV My answer to your question is that Christ can hear our prayers because he is God therefore has the following properties: He is all knowing (therefore knows our intentions), he is all present (therefore can literally hear our prayers), and he is all powerful (therefore can act on our prayers). And he retains these because he is still living. Since the saints do not have these properties while they are on Earth, I see no reason to believe they do now that they are "in Christ".
@@rosswalenciak3739 Hi Ross, because the Saints partake in the divine nature, stemming from a communication of properties that occurred when Christ took on human nature, meaning that they are not limited to what we consider the hard limits of human faculties now
@@TheMhouk2 brother please read
1Timothy 2:5
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Great conversation, thanks!
Great interview. Such wisdom. Thank you!
Excellent questions. Very helpful
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I like Fr. Barnabas. As a south Georgian he's the only priest I've ever heard that sounds like me lol
Orthodox y is not easy to follow , but it is following the ten commandments and reading the bible as it was written . We fast and pray and it hasn't changed to suit modern fashion. Orthodoxy is love, forgiveness unconditional love love. If you can't forgive you should not take holy communion.Orthodoxy is if practiced right a deep and beautiful religion. I love it.
Congratulations on your journey. I was wondering, do you still pray in tongues?
Father Barbara's I love you.Barnabas, St Barnabas was jew living in Cyprus ,he is buried here, we owe our religion to him and he is our patron Saint.This Island is a very holy one , unfortunately we have the moslems that want to wipe us out, but here for the grace of God we still survive. Come to Cyprus and visit our old Monesteries. Kykou up on the mountain, there you will feel God especially in the spring with the mist covering it. Orthodoxy is love.
Barnabas Powell we have celtic orthodox church also exists today.
yes , this is remain of orthodox church of Britain. When William the conqueror came with his Norman slaughters - he brought roman catholicism from barbaric Frankia
God works in mysterious ways.He is using protestant theologians who knows scripture to become orthodox as a way of sharing Gospel with the orthodox who are clueless!
Father Barnabas ur way off base of the purpose.
Greeks born into Orthodoxy isn't an accident.
Are the Greek Orthodox Church’s going to allow women in the Altar?
As what? Diacons? You are talking based on Scriptures or on cultural neomarxist agenda?
Do you know the difference between hesychastic prayer and glossalalia? Absolutely nothing! ;)))
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I am also a former Pentecostal who became Orthodox in 2015. But now I will return to evangelism, because I got to know Orthodoxy deeply and discovered many errors and lies. If any traditional church has a legitimate right to claim to have ecclesiological fullness, it is the Roman Catholic Church!! This man is one of those who was fascinated by the romanticism of the Eastern churches!! I thank God that I deeply understood this church and its spirit. This person is deceived, and he thinks that he has found the peak of truth, but if he remains a seeker until the end and does not allow himself to be complacent, another disappointment awaits him and he does not know it yet ;)
Why would you believe Rome to have ecclesiological fullness?
@@that_sun_guy6527 Because that's what the majority of fathers thought, who are also authorities for Eastern Orthodoxy.
Can you give examples of what the church fathers taught that shows them to have ecclesiological fullness? Just for clarity’s sake. Thank you🙏🏽
@@leo11190 CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE
“The Lord says to Peter: ‘I say to you,’ he says, ‘that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.’ . . . On him [Peter] he builds the Church, and to him he gives the command to feed the sheep [John 21:17], and although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single chair [cathedra], and he established by his own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity. Indeed, the others were that also which Peter was [i.e., apostles], but a primacy is given to Peter, whereby it is made clear that there is but one Church and one chair. So too, all [the apostles] are shepherds, and the flock is shown to be one, fed by all the apostles in single-minded accord. If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he [should] desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?” (The Unity of the Catholic Church 4; 1st edition [A.D. 251])
CYRIL OF JERUSALEM
“The Lord is loving toward men, swift to pardon but slow to punish. Let no man despair of his own salvation. Peter, the first and foremost of the apostles, denied the Lord three times before a little servant girl, but he repented and wept bitterly” (Catechetical Lectures 2:19 [A.D. 350]).
“[Simon Magus] so deceived the city of Rome that Claudius erected a statue of him. . . . While the error was extending itself, Peter and Paul arrived, a noble pair and the rulers of the Church, and they set the error aright. . . . [T]hey launched the weapon of their like-mindedness in prayer against the Magus, and struck him down to earth. It was marvelous enough, and yet no marvel at all, for Peter was there-he that carries about the keys of heaven [Matt. 16:19]” (ibid., 6:14).
“In the power of the same Holy Spirit, Peter, both the chief of the apostles and the keeper of the keys of the kingdom of heaven, in the name of Christ healed Aeneas the paralytic at Lydda, which is now called Diospolis [Acts 9:32-34]” (ibid., 17:27).
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
“Jesus said to Peter, ‘Feed my sheep’. Why does He pass over the others and speak of the sheep to Peter? He was the chosen one of the Apostles, the mouth of the disciples, the head of the choir. For this reason Paul went up to see him rather than the others. And also to show him that he must have confidence now that his denial had been purged away. He entrusts him with the rule [prostasia] over the brethren. . . . If anyone should say ‘Why then was it James who received the See of Jerusalem?’, I should reply that He made Peter the teacher not of that see but of the whole world.” (Homilies on John, 88.1).
I can go on and on. is it enough?
@@tradertrader8838 I fail to see in those quotes anything that is specific to Peter being the only authority. What I see is the importance of the papacy, but they left the faith and excommunicated themselves
Catholicism is not Christian . He is. Father of who ? His kids ? He is not to be called father . Being catholic is no different than being a Pentecostal . Works salvation. Which is a false Gospel so what’s the difference . This man is not of God , he knows not God if he believes. Mary leads sinners to Jesus . He is a deceiver and a fraud . If any individual believes Mary answers prayers they are deceived . Lies
He’s not a Roman Catholic priest.
Obviously you didn't listen to or give a damn about hearing what this ORTHODOX PRIEST said!
yeh praying to Mary seems so un right to me… or any of the saints for that matter
He's not Catholic and Catholic is part of Christendom