Having A Personal Relationship With Christ - Fr. Zechariah Lynch

Fr. Zechariah Lynch is the priest at Archangel Michael Orthodox Church in Pueblo, Colorado. Fr. Zechariah dives into his story, how he became Orthodox and what it looks like to have a personal relationship with Christ.
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[@joshuapayne9826]

I don’t identify with any sect of Christianity I just classify myself as a simple follower of Christ and long for his relationship I have been filled with the spirit and all he delivered me from prison a life of crime and drug trafficking I’m all in for him I went to Catholic Church and Pentecostal church both were beautiful and full of the spirit but my soul is craving orthodoxy it’s so beautiful and I just feel like I need to go to an Orthodox Church blessings to all my brothers and sisters in Christ may he guide us in every way have mercy on us and use us to advance his kingdom! Amen

[@mdwer]

If you are watching this and are absolutely blessed enough to have this guy as your priest, just know this man is the real deal, a real and true disciple of our Lord. Listen to him.

[@heatherlong1235]

This is an absolute blessing! My husband and I were baptized into the Orthodox Church Sept 30, 2023! I was raised in Southern California and went to Calvary Church for schooling and church. I thank God that He lead me to Orthodoxy. Christ has saved our marriage. We both were very broken from our past sins, but glory be to God, thru confession, baptism, chrismation..life in Christ, we are receiving healing. Slowly but perceptibly, the Lord is bringing us healing. Glory be to our God!

[@jasonallen332]

Welcome home! Glory to God

[@heatherlong1235]

@@jasonallen332 thank you!

[@zealousideal]

Heather!! Me too! I was Calvary Chapel (among many other churches) though I found Calvary Chapel actually more balanced and based (middle of the road) than most other churches! I still love them and have friends and family there and sometimes still listen in. I also went to Pastor Raul Reis and Greg Laurie’s churches! But yes ortho is great too, I’ve been Ortho for almost 9 yrs now and use to go to Fr. Josiah Trenham parish in Riverside. Well Welcome! What brought you to EO? I’d love to hear your story and testimony!! Blessings!

[@silverecho1201]

How long did it take to get baptized? I hear no standard exists and it is up to your Bishop to set standards for the priests below him

[@heatherlong1235]

@@silverecho1201 we were became catechumens after attending services for 3 or 4 months. Our catechumen almost exactly one year.

[@ivanbravo347]

I’m starting to love Orthodoxy more nd more.

[@seeker2219]

I can't stop consuming Orthodoxy, i have no church and i live in a nation with almost no Orthodox church. Yet i want more of it, and want to experience it, live it. But i need the truth and knowlage. So i turn to Yt channels. Thank you for sharing, it is greatly appreciated.

[@newrealm9187]

Look on Google maps for sketes or hidden little churches. They’re out there brother. If not call the closest priest and explain your situation.

[@TaaviTuisk]

Pray, so that you may become part of The Church.

[@yuulian4776]

You can also listen to Orthodox chantigs, they sing the psalms mostly and they are wonderful :)

[@JunakBlazheski]

Brother, God will lead you to the Church. "Knock and it will open!" Pray to God! Can I ask you for your name?

[@zealousideal]

We’ve all been there as far as can’t get enough!! I was like that the first few years of it. The “allure” eventually wears off but the truth is still always there. My mother is in the same predicament as you, she doesn’t live anywhere near a EO church, but still lived the faith and kept it strong even all the fasting rules and everything. Sadly she couldn’t ever attend in person. But she listens online and does everything else. Though many say sadly you can’t be true orthodox or live the life outside a parish because unlike Protestantism it has to be lived WITHIN the parish life. BUT in extreme cases like that, God understands and at the end of the day it’s still also about your relationship to him and faith and grace as well. Blessings 👌🏽

[@marclhernandez]

As a protestant evangelical christian, this is one the best interviews I've seen in my whole life. Keep spreading the message: Christ lives.

[@realmccoy124]

Absolutely loved this interview! I am called out from darkness. I am received in my brokenness - but I am never to remain there…. The priest’s comments about us rising to our true potential in Christ God as becoming ‘fully human’ - restored by our measure of faith, enabled by the measure of grace already present in our life in this very moment - wow! So much to consider! Thank you for this post! Lovingly - Cuthbert!

[@pedroreis9339]

Wonderful and deep! God bless us all.🤍🕊🌟

[@realmccoy124]

@@pedroreis9339 - agreed. And thanks for your comment. I pray we all are encouraged to press forward.

[@Gman12959]

I enjoy the real spirituality of Orthodoxy. It’s not like others

[@adrianmanda5233]

Orthodoxy is not a religion but It is a natural way of living so how Jesus want from us to live and help us whith His grace how to do it.

[@melatdemessie808]

It’s heartwarming to see Americans come to Orthodoxy!

[@Gman12959]

We are one

[@SophiaK-vu2mw]

If I wasn’t already an inquirer into Orthodoxy, I would be after this video.

[@MgdNmt]

That is good, keep searching for answers, don't settle. You are on your own path towards Christ for sure.

[@eleniminas7742]

Much love from Orthodox Greece 🇬🇷 ❤🎉May the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you all ❤

[@vaclavnedomansky9771]

Glory to You Lord. Thank you for blessing us with clergy like Father Zechariah. May God Bless him and his family.

[@szudy76]

Beautiful interview 😢the raw emotion and pure love for God can be felt on the other side of this phone. God Bless you Fr. ❤

[@bersabelwondimagegnhu6861]

I’m Ethiopian Orthodox and this was absolutely beautiful testimony and teaching of the orthodox faith. This channel is increasing my understanding of orthodoxy! Thank you 🙏🏾

[@ThomasG_Nikolaj]

The Ethiopian church is Oriental "Orthodox" and has not been in communion with us since the 5th century. If you can, you should visit a canonical Orthodox Church. (Eastern Orthodox - Russian, Serbian, Greek, OCA, Romanian, Antiochian, etc)

[@knightrider585]

The superficiality of salvation in Protestantism (or at least how I have seen it presented) rings true with me. I was an atheist who got sick of the nihilism of modernity. Protestantism seems to provide some quick answer that you just have to have faith and you are saved, job done. They seem to have missed how I need to live without nihilism. I think the Orthodox view of spending the rest of your life, and beyond, moving towards God is more useful to me in terms of meaning than some hollow-feeling assurance that I am saved.

[@tinahale9252]

Thank you for sharing this 🙏

[@MyCorrectOpinion]

When I was a Protestant, I developed a nihilistic view of life. I still believe that there is a purpose to life, but that purpose was simply, "Get to heaven." Prior to this, I had suffered from an existential crisis in which I feared dying and seeing darkness for eternity. As my sole motivation was to reach heaven, and I was a staunch believer in Sola Fide, I became extremely sinful. "God doesn't care that I sin because I simply need to believe in him to reach heaven!" I would say to myself. Considering the fact that all you need is belief in order to reach heaven, why would you want to avoid sin? If you are going to heaven anyway, why do you need to avoid murdering, lying, stealing, committing adultery, and envying? For a period of time, this was my logic. I sinned during this period without feeling guilty or ashamed.

[@ThomasG_Nikolaj]

If you read the Lives of Orthodox saints, especially modern ones, you'll see what this view of salvation produces in terms of good fruits and Holiness. The saints are the ones who achieved theosis the most in their earthly life. I'd recommend Saint Paisios, Saint Porphyrios and St. Joseph the Hesychast if you have never looked into any of the Saints. I also had an atheist background, I was raised as an atheist, and reading the Lives of the Saints removed any doubts for me that Orthodoxy is the Truth. It's why every Orthodox priest and monk will tell you to read about the saints, and to read scripture also, but within the context of the Church, as it was in history and the Liturgy. The bible is a liturgical book, that's the proper context for the bible. :) God bless

[@tinahale9252]

I used to attend the vineyard Church. At the time in my life I had begun doubting and questioning that Jesus Christ was the son of God. Deeply ashamed of my sin toward the Lord Jesus. So I went to the church one Sunday after the struggle with this and the pastor just stopped in the middle of the sermon and he said " Jesus loves you and he forgives your doubt as many have denied me. " This was for me. I knew Jesus was looking through him at me. I never had doubts about Jesus and I have received his grace and love. He has spoken to me a few times in my life. I know His voice because he's my shepherd. Im 57 now and I went to Orthodox Church on Sunday. It is my first time

[@zealousideal]

Welcome! it’s a beautiful but tough long journey but worth it! I was charismatic pastor for many decades before EO.

[@lykakinchen7601]

In the 18th minute I was inspired to share something I wrote many years ago The sun is sleeping and I am sure these words have been written before. But as it sleeps It dreams into my mind. It dreams of how it used to be a persons mind So long, long ago turned into earth and once again the green shoots rise animals eat these we eat them another person reaches up again through the trials and transient difficulties of our lives and then that earth eventually became a star and that star dreamed another earth. You are ancient and are the dreams of many and of the Suns of the plants, of the trees, of the cows that graze of the tigers that prey Come within, it is safe here, come into this labyrinth, it never ends door behind door behind door endless numbers of doors to open, endless possibilities How can we say we want anything better? As the sun closes his her eyes close your eyes too and sleep or in fact die let the dream move your limbs and turn away suddenly from the way you'd resigned yourself to and maybe again this is the flow they say to go with Walk away from certainty and knowledge into uncertainty and unknowledge which is always moving and changing, insubstantial yet substance itself, mysterious and consuming, ancient and never-ending true knowledge.

[@forcefedapocalypse]

Thank you father. I'll keep you and your loved one's in my prayers. God bless.

[@elizabethecarlisle1045]

Fr. Lynch has had an experience of the divine.

[@MrMann703]

Interesting talk, the emotion I see/hear feels real, the body language and facial cues tells me he's genuine.

[@user-ew8mv8db2m]

I was baptized by Father Zechariah in 2012 in that very church.

[@DzoZee]

Do you still go to liturgy there? I am up in the springs and want to come meet this man. How was it?! How are the people?! I would love to hear you experience

[@user-ew8mv8db2m]

@@DzoZee I haven’t been there in 12 years. Father Zechariah and everyone there were great. I can’t imagine that has changed.

[@DzoZee]

@@user-ew8mv8db2m super encouraging to hear, thanks so much! 💖🤗☦️

[@user-ew8mv8db2m]

@@DzoZee I hope you enjoy your visit!

[@AJ0223]

​@user-ew8mv8db2m ..... so, you were recieved into the Church and like.... never went back? Lol. Did you move away? I'm a little confused.

[@EAD1142]

Beautiful and touching Father Zechariah.

[@despairknot]

I loved being at Archangel Michael Church in Pueblo.

[@andys3035]

I go to Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Denver. May God bless you.

[@matthewmeyer3483]

Most beautiful testimony to the Orthodox Faith. I am filled with encouragement in my own journey.

[@TylerMadison711]

The same people that say icons are idolatry will hang pictures of people who aren't even nearly as holy in they're own home. It only serves to reason that in my church home I would have pictures of my church family.

[@periwinkle3448]

I appreciate and relate to this especially as a former Vineyardite who raised my Children in the Vineyard and along with my oldest child is converting to Orthodoxy.

[@dragasinbrankovic]

Unbelievably beautiful, this motivated me to go to an orthodox cathedral in a few hours, exact one where I have witnessed a mirracle a few months ago. I guess I ain't getting any sleep this night but God's grace is much more powerful than that. Father, I always cry when I mention my faith or when witnessing a funeral or baptism, I am glad that I am not alone in feedling my fath so strongly, all glory to God

[@Tom_McMurtry]

What miracle did you witness? God bless :))

[@dragasinbrankovic]

@@Tom_McMurtry I exactly didn't want to write this because of naysayers and unbelievers mocking. Whole cathedral was full of light, and I am not talking about photons (created light). Huge surge of beautiful emotional energy was washing over me and I cried, I can only describe it as the love of God. When I came out of the building my vision was still so much brighter than usual, I could feel intentions of people without even trying. I could also feel a stench and for lack of a better word energy shifts in people when they planned to steal or where contemplating violence or lusting, I can only guess that these where symptoms of demonic pressence, I could feel it even if person was meters away. Basically my spiritual eye opened(I don't know if this is scriptural way of saying this). For weeks after this I hated sin with all my heart, I couldn't even light up a cigarette as a 10 year heavy smoker, I couldn't even look at a female like worldly people do and everything sinful that seems normal to worldly people was disgusting to me. Eventually those abilities and purity of heart wore off. This time when I went it was beautiful but no miraculous perception or anything similar. I guess getting those gifts is not like pressing a button and that's it, it comes and goes as it wills it. But definitely purity is the most important thing. I know that I will get a lot of criticism for writing this, but I also want to share what is possible.

[@Tom_McMurtry]

@@dragasinbrankovic thank you for sharing :)) I hear you on those who mock for the sake of it or have no imagination for what is possible outside of their own experiences. So many with NDEs have had similar experiences to you post their NDS or just before they died (and went into the tunnel and met with Jesus and family briefly etc). I also have a friend who was praying to Jesus when her parents were arguing when she was seventeen on Christmas eve and then suddenly light shine in the room from no direction that was possible and she felt full of this most blissful love and saw a male figure with long hair in the light.

[@mmr1137]

@@dragasinbrankovic Prelepo brate. Pozdrav tebi i tvojoj porodici

[@mjgalante1]

This story should be made into a movie

[@TheB1nary]

Well - this must be one of the best interviews I have seen as an enquirer. Truly a unique view into Orthodoxy. Thank you!!

[@philliponfri7938]

Wow, god bless father. I haven't heard of a father so in the spirit in a long time.

[@WillowMary33]

I found this simple but true conversation profound. Thank you Lord and thank you Father Zechariah.

[@enoch2425]

Father This is So Beautifully Said 💒Long live Orthodox❤all the way from Africa Ethiopian Orthodox Church

[@oliveradobrilovic5991]

God bless you father❤❤

[@Max_Pilgrim]

Fr. went to Ukraine to convert them to evangelical Christianity and got converted instead

[@brankabrnica1914]

Father came home☦️

[@hope12792]

Lol

[@kaylacarter6817]

His heart for the Lord is evident. ❤

[@Cooltry1]

I could feel the pure emotion emulating from this video, God bless father Zechariah and everyone else watching this video.

[@nataliajulliana]

As a former Evangelical and orthodox now they are so hard to reach and so caught up in the details

[@romelanvieh2297]

I’m grateful for the content that you post. I was raised an orthodox but feel as if this is the first time that I receive this type of information and insight into the church as a whole

[@toufa89]

This is what it means love God from all your heart ❤️🇨🇦

[@DzoZee]

I think i have finally found the man i desperately want to be my spiritual father....this is it. This guy is home.

[@xAzureXHazex]

Come visit! (:

[@yanyan3656]

Ukrainian orthodox here! That's a fabulous testimony. Thanks a lot for it. Could you please say, father, which city did you visit?

[@jarrakis4834]

I’m blessed and humbled by this. Thank you so much

[@Linda-td5si]

I love Father Zechariah and his message! This was so edifying. Thank you and God Bless! 🙏☦🕊

[@user-dj1kl4sv6k]

I love these videos

[@RootsofOrthodoxy]

Thank you for watching! So much more coming next week ☦️

[@user-dj1kl4sv6k]

@@RootsofOrthodoxy thank you for posting these videos! I most definitely look forward to what’s to come!

[@vusimngomezulu2500]

​@@RootsofOrthodoxyWhich church are true according to the Bible in this world? Because many churches are not true according to this scriptures, Roman's 10:1-3,2thimoty 4:3-4,2Peter 2:1-3..

[@vusimngomezulu2500]

Which church are true according to the Bible in this world? Because many churches are not true according to this scriptures, Roman's 10:1-3,2thimoty 4:3-4,2Peter 2:1-3..

[@vusimngomezulu2500]

​@@user-dj1kl4sv6kWhich church are true according to the Bible in this world? Because many churches are not true according to this scriptures, Roman's 10:1-3,2thimoty 4:3-4,2Peter 2:1-3..

[@mikedimitropoulos2605]

Fr. L is by far one of the most articulate and relatable priests I️ have ever heard speak. WOW!

[@florentinag1712]

Thank you!

[@phoenixoliviacopy2727]

Wow. Beautiful.

[@hope12792]

Thank you.

[@goldsackb2]

Brought me to tears. Thank you, Father.

[@lynandrews4160]

Excellent interview.

[@ssiael]

Massive speech, God bless

[@spiritlightpajic7299]

🌅Thank You 🙏

[@michelleglennon3484]

I’m a Catholic but I love this channel. I listen to these and I learn and cry and listen and learn more. I’m very emotional about Christ too. It was enhanced when I went to Israel and walked around the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Felt His presence mostly at the Sea of Galilee. Thank you for this lesson on the ego etc.

[@jarrakis4834]

The last two minutes were most precious

[@paulgundrum9059]

Thank you Fr Z!! I love visiting your Church when I'm in Pueblo!

[@liveyourlife0508]

Thanks

[@RootsofOrthodoxy]

Thank you! God bless 🙏

[@kvnd6577]

I just discovered orthodoxy and all I can say is thank God for it.. just when I thought God has shown me a lot of history transitions and different sides of him.. there’s always more

[@mayjailer682]

God bless.

[@SaltShack]

Thank you for your beautiful and heart filed words and the important work of this channel. Fr. Bless. Christ Is Risen!

[@prayerworks61]

I am so GLAD I FOUND THIS VIDEO🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I'm newly start going to a Orthodox church...and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@margarettsikoonis9314]

Thankyou farther for your talk was very inspiring iam a sinner have mercy on me lord Jesus christ 🙏

[@andresgalindo7682]

Toda la Gloria a Cristo Jesus y a la Santa Iglesia Ortodoxa

[@xAzureXHazex]

Cristo a rescucitado!

[@Trevyno101]

God bless you for this video, thank you. Beloveds, soon the Lamb will cast its crown before the Throne of God, and tramples upon the Church, then swift destruction comes for the USA and the world. I love you all. God bless you all. Can’t wait to meet you!

[@petarsamac9176]

Absolutely amazing. Glory to you o Lord, GLORY TO YOU. O Heavenly King, Comforter, spirit of Truth who are present EVERYWHERE and fulfilling all things. What a wonderful video. What a blessing.

[@shirleygoss1988]

This is an excellent presentation of the Orthodox faith.

[@FirstnameLastname-py3bc]

Thank you for inviting this priest, I follow his Telegram and knew he was a very honest Orthodox, but this video.. wow

[@dianeleeder3438]

Thank you for this. Will love re-visiting this too. I hope to hear more from Fr Zechariah.

[@TheMOV13]

Vineyard... wow.... I had a lot of contact with Vineyard folk in the 1990s, when I lived in a Charismatic fellowship in Germany, we hosted conferences and I got to meet the man himself, John Wimber. I also met Carl Tuttle, Brian Doerkson, Craig Musseau, Jack Deere, Mike Bickle, Gary and Joy Best and various others. I've been Orthodox now for about two and a half years, here in the Deep South (of England!)

[@jennifertesoro3100]

AMEN ❤️ 🙏

[@everlastingphronema9700]

What he explains at minute 18 is from personal experience. I pray everyone here would thirst for this and experience God in this way- directly. One can only be in awe and even forget the fear of death and concerns of this world.

[@alicehamilton2741]

❤️

[@doreenmccoy9501]

🕊️

[@HIPguy]

Your best video yet!

[@KarinaSkye]

Wow! This made me cry! How amazing!

[@OrthoSlav]

💯. Orthodox doctrine makes sense. Being saved in protestant dogma is something that kind of "happens" suddenly and you just keep on living while in Orthodoxy it is an ongoing process. Transformation process, healing, of oneself by the grace of God, Theosis.

[@jacobgerasimof7032]

2 Cor. 3:16-17 "nevertheless, when it (one) shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. In Christ, I am free from the penalty and bondage of sin.

[@mercury760]

I grew up in the Russian old believer community in Woodburn Oregon and when I got divorced I was considered a outsider because I married a African American woman which was considered a major sin.

[@raykokinos8776]

Beautiful! Thank you.

[@trevorharrison1989]

Beautiful and blessed Father! I entered the Church in Kremenets Ukr in 2020. Have you been there?

[@anthonyrosario-7891]

11:42 Wow. “The first individual was the devil.”

[@xAzureXHazex]

The first revolutionary.

[@iona3669]

Well said dear Father...I for one could improve in this area! Lord have mercy! 💞🙏

[@jackshannon777]

Excellent. Everything said here are teachings that I received as a charismatic Protestant. Glad to see it's being taught in the Eastern churches as well.

[@exposingpowerfullieslivest5082]

Thank you 🙏

[@d0g_0f_Christ0s]

Thank You Lord, for Fr Zechariah, whose words reflect Your will for mankind, and have touched my heart in a way that hopefully triggers the way to change, to true repentance, forever, and to the ages of ages. Your will be done on Earth as in Heaven. Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy. Amen ☦️ 🙏

[@wyntersynergyundignified]

I also came to Orthodoxy out of the Vineyard. I believe God used that denomination to open my eyes and heart - many have such a hunger and appreciation for the historic and liturgical and I wanted more of it!

[@KirstinReese-iw8fr]

Amen Fr bless

[@dimagrebnev]

Спасибо вам батюшка за это интервью! Как же сложно я думаю вам погружаться в православие❤ спасибо за ваш труд!

[@tonypolicandriotes7320]

Well said, father. God bless you

[@randallgoulet1550]

That is a beautiful iconostasis

[@guspapadopoulos]

God love you . I was agnostic until read the Saints of Mount Athos.

[@DrEvoProducer]

Powerful 😔

[@robertedwards909]

I love this man!

[@hijodeyeshuah3567]

Hey, I came to Christ through a revelation and God used a protestant pastor, actually from Colorado as well (I am from tunisia). I wanna know why did you convert to Orthodoxy??

[@JesusChristISTHEONETRUEGOD]

READ THE BIBLE YOURSELF. SEARCH FOR GOD YOURSELF. YES, GOD WILL SEND PEOPLE, BOTH PROTESTANT CHRISTIANS AND ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS , TO HELP YOU. BUT THE SEARCH MUST BE FROM YOUR HEART, MIND, BODY AND SOUL.

[@usernamesarehard4355]

I JUST FINISHED watching a video on why the Western churches were scriptural and the eastern churches weren't. Very intrigued to see what the counterargument will be!

[@austinditullio6682]

So what did you think? As an ex Baptist now Orthodox Catechumen, I'm genuinely curious.

[@Loren.C]

First church from Peter was Antioch. Antioch is an eastern church. To say the Orthodox Church isn't the truth, would be calling Jesus a liar.

[@SomeStuff9]

what is the "image and likeness"?

[@xAzureXHazex]

Image and Likeness of God. During the fall of man, we maintained the image, though now tainted by sin, and because of that sin we lost the likeness of God. That's what Christ came to redeem.

[@ambrose9968]

Yes

[@3VLN]

This was POTENT.

[@ladavidson9269]

St. BASIL orthodox mission church in Marietta GA, my home parish

[@TheRadChadDad]

☦️☦️☦️