I hope that you are listening to 80’s music and drinking Yuengliing.
I think that there are a lot of various Christian denominations that are coming together. For the most part many of us know that we are surrounded by “the culture”, regardless of our doctrinal differences.
I use the term Catholic Christian among Evangelicals. Catholic already implies that we are Christians, some like to separate us by using the term Catholic or RC, while some just use it without really having any kind of agenda. So, it's hard to make a distinction, therefore I really don't respond unless I know that there is an agenda, even if there is I still do not respond.
There are also conservative, traditional and orthodox Catholics who separate themselves from other Catholics; some of them are simply observing doctrine and I think some of them are simply being snooty.
Have you ever had the folks who will not shake hands during the “Sign of Peace”? Often times these folks are more traditional, they are observing the doctrine as they interpret them. Also, technically, we are not supposed to hold hands during the Our Father. I do not like to, but my kids do and it seems silly not to do it when most members do it out of habit.
Most Christians of “good faith” are pretty tolerant. You will see some of these folks who flame Catholicism in these threads and I would venture to say that most of these individuals have their own agendas; some are bigots and I would bet that many of them are apostate Catholics, who have a knee jerk reaction to the faith.
I honestly don't have time for such people. I love talking religion and Christ with anyone, but not if they have some kind of hidden agenda and a burning desire to either be RIGHT or to prove that Catholics are wrong. Christ is NOT present in such exchanges.
I value the insights of my friends in different denominations. Sometime they come to Jesus from an angle that I would have never understood, but the observation is true and refreshing for me.
They also use a different vernacular, often times this reflects a “personal” relationship with Our Lord, which I was not really taught in our Church.
I was driving with one of my best friends and we were listening to a Christian music station and the song was about going to meet Jesus in the hereafter, and he has this big smile on his face and he asks me, “What do you think it will be like when you meet him?”
At first, I really didn't understand that he was even referring to Him? Then, I was like,...oh, I ain't all ready for any of that yet? I don't know that I have quite got my ticket punched yet.
Have any of us?
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