What does it mean to be an Episcopalian?

What does it mean to be an Episcopalian?

Most groups are usually pretty well defined: “We are this, but not that.”  Even to the point of the definition coming before belonging becomes the necessary entry into the group.

“Ya’ gatta be this or that.”  Belonging to a group is as much exclusion as it is inclusion.  In the church that has been our history over and over.  If you do not sign on to a particular confessional doctrine in one form or another, you are out of the body of the faithful (nd maybe into the fires of heresy! Ouch!)

And yet, God said to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you” - Jeremiah 1:5.

I read this and say to myself, “Self, how can we go round excluding folks for this reason and that when God says,  ‘I know  this one  and  this one  and  this  one...’”

I guess it means if God loves you it is enough.

Peace,

J+