Posted on 02/26/2019 1:37:37 PM PST by ebb tide
Thanks. I trust that you will deepen your personal relationship with Jesus Christ. He has not changed nor gone wobbly, and He is coming again and will judge all the nonsense.
I know very few Catholics who like the Jesuit or what he is doing to the church. I have not liked him from the beginning. Something sparked off my spidey sense and it was proved correct.
I know very few Catholics who like the Jesuit or what he is doing to the church. I have not liked him from the beginning. Something sparked off my spidey sense and it was proved correct.
Well, I’m not ruling anything out, but to be honest, at some point around the time I left the church something flipped like a switch inside me. I really have no desire or interest in any of it anymore. I grew up in a Protestant household and converted as an adult and will not likely go back to that for the same reasons I left in the first place. I have considered going to the Orthodox Church for my kid’s sake, but personally, my feelings about that (and religion in general) are currently lukewarm best, so if I go that route it will not be for my own benefit.
Thanks for your sincere reply. I would encourage you to consider the switch that flipped to be merely a dimmer switch because there is always light to be had.
I would encourage you by saying that God is OK with dialogue with humans. In Isaiah 1 He says, “Come. Let us reason together.” And He was OK with Job as they went back and forth; just as He was OK with Thomas and Gideon, who needed to see evidence. James tells us that if we need wisdom, we can ask for that, too, and not be scolded for it.
I’ve already gone long here. Sorry. But I would add one more thing: Christ does not call us to be impressed with, and desperate for, a church. He calls us to Himself.
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