Icemoon SG mu shi .. mu is the mu4 yang2 ren2 the mu4. shepherd I mean. shi is just shi1 in teacher lao3 shi1. chuan dao literally means "passing the word".
Honeybunz SG Ya, you go to Presbyter Church, you will hear some ppl being address Zhang Lao. eg. Chen Zhang Lao (Elder Chen), Huang Zhang Lao (Elder Huang) etc. But in other churches, I dun hear that at all. Maybe they have, but use other names.
Honeybunz SG http://www.presbyterian.org.sg/1/1/article.jsp?contentID=5&versionID=3 Churches of same denominations should function the same way, since they report to the same head. So it should be denomination based.
Honeybunz SG Then Mel Gibson's role in The Sign is what denomination? I really wonder. Cuz I watched with a non Christian friend who knew little about Christianity and denominations. He started asking whether Mel Gibson's role is a Catholic Priest. My answer is no..... We all know Catholic Priests dun get married one mah. But in the movie, he had a wife and a kid. The wife died in an accident so he was very sad & he quitted from his church ministry. But the town ppl still called him Father.
NT2 SG tt could be anglo-catholic. anglicans but most practice r still RC. actually the ties between anglicanism n RC r complicated at times.
Icemoon SG Hmm .. going by protocol .. the counterpart of the Pope is the Monarch of England right? So the Archbishop of Cantebury see the Pope also must salute?
laurence82 SG But this is tricky. The Queen of England being the head of the Church of England, rather than Archbishop of Canterbury. Its aas if the Anglicans pledge loyalty to England.
plo30360 SG Then Mel Gibson's role in The Sign is what denomination? I really wonder. Cuz I watched with a non Christian friend who knew little about Christianity and denominations. He started asking whether Mel Gibson's role is a Catholic Priest. My answer is no..... We all know Catholic Priests dun get married one mah. But in the movie, he had a wife and a kid. The wife died in an accident so he was very sad & he quitted from his church ministry. But the town ppl still called him FatherIn the movie Signs Mel Gibson's chracther Rev. Graham Hess is supposed to be an Episcopal priest.
NT2 SG The singapore anglican church (Diocese of Singapore) and also the churches of this region (Province of SE Asia) have openly declared breaking of communion with the deviant diocese and all those dioceses in favor of the consecration of homosexual bishop ( generally term as Episcopal Church of United States of America, ECUSA) please see http://www.anglican.org.sg/break_communion_24nov2003.html
