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To: ebb tide
Ulf Ekman, the pastor of a prominent megachurch in Sweden, recently announced his conversion to Catholicism. Some Protestants responded to the news with the kind of intrigue and betrayal we might expect when a man defects from his country. Others of us were left standing on the shore, wondering, Should I go, too? What's my religious heritage and where do I belong?

I don't think that she ever found Jesus...She is looking for a religion, a Church, not Christianity...

6 posted on 03/22/2014 7:34:44 PM PDT by Iscool (Ya mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park...)
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To: Iscool

I agree also. Pretty much everything she wrote seems to not really be based on a solid foundation of Scripture, but what she’s picked up along the way. I understand this from being raised in the Lutheran Church in the 70’s and 80’s, where I learned the Gospel, Jesus’ most famous commands, like to forgive, and a few of the best known Old Testament stories. We were given only a tiny amount of Scripture and never told to read the Bible, so I understand her perspective and how she might draw conclusions that the Catholic Church emphasizes God’s family, that speaking of unworthiness before God is biblical, and that even with no merit of our own we can relate to others outside the church, because we all need Jesus just as much. It does seem that all she really knows is religion. I pray that changes and she comes to know the Lord Himself.


20 posted on 03/23/2014 1:17:50 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
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To: Iscool

I just re-read my comment to you and need to make a correction. I’m writing from my phone and it’s a little harder to do than from a computer. In writing about how I could understand why she has the perspective she does, I should have written about the last two examples I included is that I can understand why she doesn’t seem to know of them.


21 posted on 03/23/2014 1:24:17 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
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To: Iscool
I don't think that she ever found Jesus...She is looking for a religion, a Church, not Christianity...

I agree with you. She has a "transcendental longing" that can only be satisfied with Jesus. She COULD find some of that with Holy Communion in the Catholic Church, Roman or Orthodox, wouldn't you think?

23 posted on 03/23/2014 6:00:06 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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