[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

I don't credit my salvation to any one denomination. I credit that to a minister (who happened to be Baptist)who helped me realise that I was living my life afraid to pursue a relationship with the Lord. I though that I wasn't good enough. I felt like I wasn't even worthy to pray to God. Maybe I am the only Catholic who felt that way, but I don't think so. Everything in my years of Catholic education was designed to acheive submission.

On the particular Sunday that I was saved, our minister preached his sermon on the renting of the curtain in the temple. I heard him say that, by dieing for our sins, Jesus opened a path for us to come to Him directly. People no longer needed to communicate or worship through the actions of the High Priest behind the curtain. That was quite an eye opener for me. For the first time, I saw a minister as a deliverer of God's message, not an intermidiary between God and His people.

[saradippity]

I wonder if that Baptist minister would have known about the rent in the curtain had Catholic's not preserved the teachings of Christ in writing. You may feel confident that this would have occurred in any case;I doubt it.