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To the great shame of the Orthodox Church, the traditional languages of Orthodox Christian liturgical worship (Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Georgian) rank nowhere near the top of these lists. Yet, those languages of the Orthodox Church from Eastern Europe and the Balkans are often the languages of the Orthodox Church in extraterritorial lands outside traditional patriarchal jurisdiction where Orthodox Christians have expatriated instead of exclusively the native languages of those lands. No wonder then that Orthodox Christians comprise such a tiny percentage of the population in those lands to which they have expatriated, and have proceeded to shirk any missionary responsibility there, preferring instead to insularly serve themselves instead of others in spiritual need. | To the great shame of the Orthodox Church, the traditional languages of Orthodox Christian liturgical worship (Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Georgian) rank nowhere near the top of these lists. Yet, those languages of the Orthodox Church from Eastern Europe and the Balkans are often the languages of the Orthodox Church in extraterritorial lands outside traditional patriarchal jurisdiction where Orthodox Christians have expatriated instead of exclusively the native languages of those lands. No wonder then that Orthodox Christians comprise such a tiny percentage of the population in those lands to which they have expatriated, and have proceeded to shirk any missionary responsibility there, preferring instead to insularly serve themselves instead of others in spiritual need. | ||
[[wikipedia:List_of_empires|List of Empires]] | Wikipedia | [[wikipedia:List_of_empires|List of Empires]] | Wikipedia | ||
[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet]<br /> | [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet]<br /> | ||
And becoming a lingua franca of sorts, or universal language of American western globalism, just as Koine Greek was the universal language of the Hellenic Period and Byzantine Empire. | And becoming a lingua franca of sorts, or universal language of American western globalism, just as Koine Greek was the universal language of the Hellenic Period and Byzantine Empire. English, along with French, Spanish and Madarin Chinese represent enormous evangelistic opportunity for the spread of Orthodoxy to those with "eyes to see and ears to hear". | ||
<span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[[wikipedia:Lingua_franca|Lingua Franca]] | Wikipedia</span> | <span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[[wikipedia:Lingua_franca|Lingua Franca]] | Wikipedia</span> | ||