Hey, if you authentically worship Christ in the Roman Catholic community, that’s sure better than not worshiping at all. I believe I remember a time on FR you were agnostic if not atheistic? If so, this is a great improvement. I’m cheered to hear about it.
However. A caution. The “genuine accept no substitutes” church won’t save and perfect you. That is mere men. Only Christ will save and perfect you. This is a point the good Lord had to make by causing the reformation churches to bud off, using the witness of the founding Christians, a witness more commonly known today as the Bible, as their connection to the body. If you are a believer in Christ (not other people) to effect the salvation of your eternal life, we are in fact in the same body, and the definitive reconciliation will be seen in eternity if not on earth.
God bless you. God bless the baby, but by all means drain the bath water.
Not me. Unchurched, yes, atheist/agnostic, no. Cradle Episcopalian, but that church left me when it allowed women in the priesthood.
Unfortunately, history records that the Episcopal church has been at the forefront of the assault on Christianity. First major denomination to accept artificial birth control, early adopters of women "priestesses", and then practicing gays, first as priests, later as bishops.
This is not to say that there are not many good caring Christians in the E-church, but their numbers are dwindling fast.
"This is a point the good Lord had to make by causing the reformation churches to bud off, using the witness of the founding Christians, a witness more commonly known today as the Bible, as their connection to the body.
Can't agree with you there. The whole "sola scriptura" thing is simply ridiculous (and in fact the Bible itself says precisely that in several different ways and places).
I note that what were the major "reformation churches" are very rapidly following the Episcopalians in their circling of the drain, adopting many of the same things the Episcopalians have caved on.