Posted on 11/13/2014 1:35:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I guess they are coming home to Jesus and leaving the payers to the so-called saints behind. Which Is Called The One True Church.
A friend of mine from Brazil confirms this. Evangelical churches are feeding the spiritual hunger that the Catholic Church is failing to do. Particularly among the young.
Are they leaving the Catholic Church, or is the Catholic Church leaving them? I would say the latter with Pope Francis. I am not Catholic, but if I were I would have to rethink the church with him at the helm.
He only took office 20 months ago, and any effect he had, if any, didn't start on day one.
Maybe they just want a church service that doubles as entertainment and to be told that Jesus wants them to be fat, happy, and most of all, rich.
Great news anytime someone entrusts themselves to Christ!
Maybe a solution to the corruption can finally be implemented. Time will tell.
That’s what I’m going through right now. It is squandering away it’s chances to educate and instruct it’s flock as to ALL of the cultural rot that is destroying the Western world.
They need golden domes and fancy robes and stuff for that
“Maybe they just want a church service that doubles as entertainment and to be told that Jesus wants them to be fat, happy, and most of all, rich.”
Well, apparently they don’t want a church service that doubles as a Marxist cell group and tells them that Jesus wants them to pick up a gun and kill the rich!
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That’s true, but it is also true that he has exposed how radicals within the church are firmly in control. The changes before were more incremental and somewhat obscured. Now it’s an in your face type of changes happening. Something this Pope obviously agrees with and fully supports.
Irrelevant to this thread, I don’t think this thread is about the last few months, or the last year.
Nearly as many are leaving because they want to “enjoy the style of worship” at a different church. They aren’t coming home to anyone — their reasons for changing churches are totally superficial.
That's incorrect. What's actually happening is that Catholics are being scattered among a multitude of sects and faith communities which are unified, for the purposes of this survey, under the umbrella term "Protestant". However there's no unity in what's happening. Those who leave Catholicism actually embrace a variety of different beliefs and doctrines almost as numerous as the preachers who sell it. I can't see that as a good thing unless one subscribes to the idea that anything is better than Catholicism.
As for rapid growth of religions, currently the fastest growing world religion, in terms of numbers, is Islam.
Just sayin'..........
All churches are subject to corruption as they are run by men. The question you need to ask yourself is a different question. You need to ask what church did Jesus found?
The answer is the Catholic Church.
Oh my!! Taking short break to make popcorn.
As if any two Catholics actually believe the same thing. Please. I visit with Catholics all the time and Heinz 57 Varieties are more unified than they are.
I rather think it was Paul.
Why didn’t Jesus, then well into his ministry, Christianize the Lord’s Prayer rather than use an already familiar Hebrew formulary (the Amidah) which in fact, gives it its more universal appeal?
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