The True Orthodox Church
The True Orthodox Church was founded by our Lord Jesus Christ in 33 AD, commissioned by the power of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. The Apostles and the Disciples preached this faith, the Church Fathers practiced it and handed it over to us who are the witnesses today to the salvific mission of our Lord Jesus Christ. This Church has kept the faith and the canons. The Church has always been persecuted, and with the promise of our Lord, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. There is no salvation outside the Church. God deals with those who are outside the Church according to His boundless mercy and righteousness, and the Apostle forbids us to concern ourselves with His judgements.
On False Assemblies
God did not institute schismatic and heretical assemblies so that they might work in parallel with the Church for the salvation of humanity. Hence, such assemblies are not workshops of salvation, but obstacles created by the devil, wherein error is mingled with truth in varying proportions, so that the true Church may not be recognized. Such organizations are false Christian churches, otherwise known as apostate churches: these are set up by human beings who either separated from the True Church through heretical belief and practices, or established themselves and became false clergy as a means to gain financial freedom, enslaving their followers.
The Canons Forbid Prayer with Heretics
Apostolic Canon LXV says that if anyone enters a congregation of heretics in order to pray, in case he is a clergyman he is to be deposed; if he is a layman he is to be excommunicated. The Synod of Laodicea in its thirty-second Canon says: “One must not accept blessings from heretics, which are absurdities, and not blessings.”
Neither must one pray together with heretics or schismatics, according to its thirty-third Canon. Its thirty-fourth Canon anathematizes those who leave the martyrs of Christ out of consideration and go to the pseudo-martyrs of heretics. Moreover, the ninth Canon of the Synod of Laodicea excommunicates Christians that go to the cemeteries or martyrs’ shrines of heretics in order to pray, or for the sake of healing their sick. But neither ought any Christian to concelebrate any feast with heretics, nor to accept any gifts they may send him on their feast days, according to the thirty-seventh Canon of the same Synod of Laodicea.
“Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, ‘I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘And do not touch what is unclean; and I will welcome you. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me,’ says the Lord Almighty.” (2 Corinthians 6:14–18)
We Are Not Part of Ecumenism
We are not part of the false gathering of ecumenism, and we keep the Church Calendar with all the Church canons. This is the continuation of the True Church founded by our Lord Jesus Christ. This Church has kept the faith and the canons, has always been persecuted, and with the promise of our Lord, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Outside the Church There Is No Salvation
There is no salvation outside the Church. God deals with those who are outside the Church according to His boundless mercy and righteousness, and the Apostle forbids us to concern ourselves with His judgements.
Outside the Church there is no true Baptism nor any other sacrament. For this reason, the Apostolic canons and those of the Ecumenical Councils forbid us to pray with schismatics and heretics, whether in private or in the Church. They forbid us, under penalty of deposition and excommunication, to permit them to function as clergymen in our churches and assemblies. During the Divine Liturgy we pray for the catechumens. We do pray for the conversion of heretics and schismatics, but we cannot pray with them, for this would be tantamount to yoking truth with error, light with darkness.
Pentecostal, Evangelical, Orthodox, Catholic
The True Orthodox Church is Pentecostal and Evangelical, but not Protestant. It is Orthodox, but not Jewish. It is Catholic, but not Roman. It isn’t non-denominational — it is pre-denominational. It has believed, taught, preserved, defended and died for the Faith of the Apostles since the Day of Pentecost over 2000 years ago. The Genuine Orthodox Church maintains an unbroken Tradition and Apostolic Succession from Saint Andrew the First-Called Apostle.
Genuine Orthodox Christians are the true followers of Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of the Living God, who in His great mercy came into the world and assumed our human nature by becoming man, so that He could save us from our sins by His passion, death, resurrection and glorious ascension into Heaven. Every Genuine Orthodox Christian is a witness to God’s saving action in human history, and a bearer of the Good News of Christ to the ends of the earth.