Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity

I've often spoken of the differences between how Christians in the Eastern world understand some things in contrast to how those same things are generally understood in the west. This interview with an Archbishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church touches on some of those differences.

It's important for each of us to remember that just because something we hear is new to us and different from what we've been taught doesn't necessarily mean it is wrong. I've been amazed by the opposition I've received from some "grace people" for saying the very things this man is saying, (although not nearly in such an articulate and scholastic way). To summarily dismiss a teaching we haven't heard as "false teaching, heresy, unorthodox,"etc. when, if we're honest, we've never seriously studied the topic being addressed is intellectually lazy at best and hypocritical at worst. Not every body believes like you do. And they hold their views with the same love for Christ, the Bible, academic study and reliance upon the Holy Spirit as the rest of us have.

Hear this man with an open mind. He explains how we've jumped the track in many ways in the Western Church world.