Where should we go?
To Ayn Rand. Or Adam Smith. Maybe Prager offers salvation too.
“Where should we go?”
I’m thinking maybe Eastern Orthodox, haven’t decided yet.
You may want to visit a Bible believing fundamental church just to see what they are saying. My pastor goes from Genesis to Revelations and is very conservative. Took a while to find him and started at a Catholic church, but he is worth it.
The social justice message drove me away.
Find a church that teaches the Bible. Typically the church will have a "What we believe" statement (usually on a website). The statement will say something like this:
We believe that the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God, and that it is His revelation to man, inerrant in the original writings. We believe, therefore, that the Bible is the supreme and final authority in all matters of doctrine, faith, and life.
About God, the statement should say something like this:
God exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The three have distinct personalities and yet are of the same substance, one God.
About Christ, the statement should say something like this:
The eternal Son of God became incarnate in the Lord Jesus Christ, being born of the virgin Mary, and is true God and true man. He died physically on the cross and was bodily resurrected three days later.
About the Holy Spirit:
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. He regenerates, indwells, baptizes, and seals all believers in Christ and empowers those yielded to God.
There should be a statement about man's sin condition and our need for a Savior.
This is a good statement about "salvation":
Salvation is given to those men chosen by God and drawn to Christ by the Holy Spirit. The only means to their salvation is belief in Christ’s substitutionary death and resurrection.
. There will be more, but these are the bare essentials. There may be minor differences, some may object to minor details of this message to you. Don't bother with issues that are secondary.
The MAIN thing is that you have asked the essential first question, "Where should we go?"
May God Richly Bless you!
Where should we go?
find the nearest SSPX chapel...other than that the Church offers no alternatives...
The question of St. Peter himself.
No where else to go, but where He leads. His Church is not defined by one man's actions, not even the Pope. It's become increasingly clear to me that Pope Francis at least has leftist (political) sympathies. This doesn't concern me though; the Church survived many more worse Popes than he; it will continue on long after we are all dead.
"Thou hast the words of everlasting life".
Lemme put it another way: the Holy Spirit never promised to keep the Pope from acting “inappropriately”. That’s the most respectful way I can put it.
Can't go to the Baptist or the Episcopalian, that's for sure.
My answer at #93:
The one true Church is not of men. Poor shepherds come and go, but the Gates of Hell will not prevail against the Roman Catholic Church.