[annalex]

[annalex]

Inspiring conversion testimony for your enjoyment.

[Tax-chick]

I have some of Mr. Thigpen’s books. He seems to be a very nice man.

[sneakers]

Conversion bump!

[annalex]

when I studied the history of Jewish and Christian liturgy, I found that even if we could return to the primitive Christian experience, that experience would not resemble most of the Protestant, especially the charismatic, churches of today. The congregations I'd been part of were for the most part assuming that they had recovered a New Testament model of strictly spontaneous worship, local government, and Bible-only teaching. But the early Church, I found, was in reality liturgical in worship; trans-local and hierarchical in government; and dependent on a body of sacred Tradition that included the Scripture, yet stretched far beyond it as well.

This was the pivital point in my wife's conversion.

[skr]

for when I’m not supposed to be sleeping

[FourtySeven]

“Christ, in His beauty, draws me to Him”. - Jacopone da Todi

His perfect Sacrifice is the beauty I’m refering to here, not that it’s “beautiful” to see Him on the Cross, broken and bloodied. (Just to avoid any confusion) The beauty of Him, in all His Being, is, dare I say, “irresistable” to those who seek an answer to the mystery of life? Perhaps this is the method by which the Father “draws” those that come to Him? (cf. John 6:44) The Beauty of His Son.

Through the Son, the Father draws.

Just something I’ve been thinking about for a while.

[MEGoody]

I rejoice with the angels at this man’s salvation. (All heaven rejoices over a person who turns to Christ, no matter what church they do it in, or even if they don’t do it in a church.)