Posted on 11/19/2014 2:24:41 PM PST by NYer
In so doing, they ignore the very scripture they proclaim:
Thus I aspire to proclaim the gospel not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on another's foundation, but as it is written: "Those who have never been told of him shall see, and those who have never heard of him shall understand."
Romans 15:20-21
That so true especially in Los Angeles there is lot of Latinos who covert to Evangical churches
I’m a Pentacostal. I don’t care if someone comes to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ through the Assemblies of God, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Southern Baptist Church, the Syrian Coptic Church, the small non-demoninational Church in a storefront downtown, or the big mega-Church out on the highway.
As long as Christ is preached and his Gospel is proclaimed, I don’t care.
Let’s save souls rather than bickering about who is sitting at what table for the banquet afterwards.
Amen, brother!
Good comment.
My church congregation supports missionaries in Honduras who over the past five years have built a high school, an elementary school, a health clinic, and now they’re raising funds to build a hospital. They hold church services in the school’s cafeterias as opposed to building a church.
They’ve also seen their congregations grow from less than twenty people five years ago to now over ten thousand. And every one of those people was Catholic five years ago. The Catholic church has more or less abandoned Honduras and the evangelicals are coming in unopposed to meet the physical, educational, and spiriritual needs of these people.
The book of ACTS when 3000 where filled with Holy Spirit, and each spoke in tongues, STILL AVAILABLE TO REAL CHRISTIANS.
However some are CINOs, Christians in name only...not really believers in Holy Spirit and his power.
In 1967 the second large group of infilling of the Holy Spirit was in NOTRE DAME University conference...3000 (note the number) were Baptised in Holy Ghost (Spirit)..it was the beginning of that second great awakening and impacted America for more than twenty years, in fact some are still being impacted.
I believe a third wave is coming to those who aren’t HERETICS and have open hearts. The Catholic Charismatic movement hit the Protestant churches and there were MILLIONS who are now part of that movement.
Around 1900 in San Francisco there was the first movement at a meeting where AMY MCPHERSON was ministering and that was the beginning of the Charismatic movement for the Pentecostals in America.
PENTECOST...REMEMBER THE BOOK OF ACTS.
The Holy Spirit is the third part of the trinity, and if you read the Bible you will find JESUS SAID that he had to go the Father so that the COMFORTER (Holy Spirit) could come. WEll just what part of that don’t you get?
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!
http://www.openbible.info/topics/the_unpardonable_sin
Thank you!
i’m with you brother.
Romans 15:20-21
I probably convert too, or maybe just abandon organized religion altogether if all I had was the Vatican II nonsense.
Amen!
Not when St. Paul wrote his Epistle to the Romans. The same holds true today.
Why do we go to church on Sunday? Is it to socialize with other parishioners? Is it to be entertained? Is it to commiserate about the priest assigned to the parish or the bishop who shepherds the diocese?
We go to church on Sunday to WORSHIP GOD!
Having grown up with the Latin Mass, survived the change to the Novus Ordo and visited several Eastern Catholic Churches, each week I remind myself of my purpose for attending mass on Sunday ... to worship God. Perhaps the NO liturgy is not to my liking or the priest / bishop is a progressivist, our purpose remains the same. Moreover, it is in the Catholic Church that we truly encounter God through the Eucharist. As bad as some of the liturgies I have attended over the decades, my focus has remained on Jesus Christ who comes to me each week in the Eucharist. Those who abandon the Catholic Church for an Evangelical one, abandon the living Christ. They may hear His words but they cannot receive Him, body, soul and divinity.
The reality is the opposite. Those most resolute in opposing abortion and marriage between persons of the same-sex are found among the neo-Protestants, not among the Catholics.
The people want the Bible's teaching, not flexibility.
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
I truly feel sorry for Catholics.
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