5 Saucy Thoughts for Today 5. If the 'historic Christian church' to which you are referring didn't or doesn't physically exist, it isn't historic, and it's not a Church. 4. Kinda hard to follow the bishop as though following Christ if you don't have one. 3. You can't 'rediscover' your apostolic succession if you started out your existence as an ecclesial community denying its necessity. (Doug Wilson, looking in your direction.) 2. You don't tolerate a great variation of views on the Lord's Supper in your communities; why do you think the early Fathers would? (Keith Mathison, looking in your direction.) 1. The Protestant insistence that we are all "united in the essentials" reminds me of the crafting of the Universal Declaration On Human Rights. The representatives of various nations agreed they could sign the document together, so long as no one asked what each person intended by doing so.