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Posted on 04/24/2011 6:34:14 PM PDT by Mary Kochan
Oops — messed up in trying to get all the words of the hymn in italics. Sorry ‘bout that — but you know what’s what.
Happy Easter to you, Mary Kochan. What a great testimony you have. I’m guessing it was all part of A Plan!
Mary I was raised a Jehovah’s Witness too. Now I’m Roman Catholic. I don’t exactly see how running down another faith creates for you a more “happy Easter”, but to each his own.
How is what she said “running down” Jehovah’s Witnesses? She discovered the truth (as you also have, apparently) and rejected the untruth of her former faith.
Since you asked the question I’ll tell you. When I explain my reasons for leaving the Witness’s to people I simply tell them that I know longer agreed with/believed their faith. I don’t find it necessary to itemize our points of contention.
Let’s say you have an ex-girlfriend (I’m assuming your a guy and if not I apologize). If somebody says to you, “Why did you and ____ break up?” do you say something nice like, “We weren’t right for each other” or do you start listing everything you thought wrong with that person? If you start listing everything you thought wrong with them, then that IS running them down. Same thing with religious faith.
Thank you for that!
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I’m Catholic too.
This is called a testimony. It has everything to do with glorifying the grace of God that saved us from darkness. Are you telling me that you don’t recognize that the JWs are decieved about who Jesus is?
I find that incomprehensible for any Christian, and even more so for a Catholic where we hold the Holy Trinity and the Deity of Our Lord at the center of our faith.
These are not things about which we can be indifferent.
Excellent testimony, Mary. Thanks for posting it.
Mary, thank you for your story. I was buddhist before i came to christ. easter has a new meaning to me now, as well. my caps lock/shift key is going out. that’s why my post looks funny.
Testimony?
You can call it that if you want but it looks like you just hate the Witnesses to me. I feel sorry for them. There’s a lot of good people in that faith and it’s a shame that they believe what they believe. But I don’t hate them.
“Testimony”...lol.
Thanks for an interesting story of the evolution of your faith.
I did not find it especially critical of Jehovah’s Witnesses, but I had a family member who embraced that faith and it is very hard on kids, separates them from society in destructive ways. Of the three children, none remain witnesses, one is a Roman Catholic, one escaped early and is a Methodist I think and one is an agnostic.
The two younger children were severely harmed psychologically. I would be more inclined to be critical than you were.
Happy Easter Mary.
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God bless you Sweet Sister!
It’s amazing when truth hits you, isn’t it?
You are really quite shallow.
WELCOME HOME !!!!!!!!!
Nothing she’s written here is hateful; you are way off-base claiming that she’s deriding JWs. She is, however, specific about why she left that misguided faith. The specifics make the story of conversion believable. I have no idea why this troubles you.
Giving Glory and Praise to our Lord Jesus Christ is not
being negative. Trying in this way to reach other lost
souls is not negative.
I am thankful for the testimony and that she persisted in finding the simple truth that our God died for us the lowest of sinners. That is what so many of us consider ourselves. We have a heavenly Father who guides us with the Holy Spirit and His Word.
I praise my Lord and thank Him for this Resurrection Day to celebrate His love and His Salvation to me.
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