Thank you for your kind words. To tell you the truth, I started writing my thoughts, and then words and phrases just came flowing out. I choose to believe it was the Holy Spirit leading me.
I was blessed to attend an ‘Alpha Course’ training session last summer at Centre Street Church in Calgary. Among the many presenters who discussed the course were Spiritual Development Pastors from Centre Street Church and First Alliance Church, the two largest churches in Calgary, and the Spiritual Development representative from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary. What he said was, the Roman Catholic church presents the exact same video series as Protestant churches do. All they do is add a couple of meetings to discuss aspects of Roman Catholicism not cover by the Nicky Gumbel videos.
The fact that two major branches of Christianity could work together so well, blessed and impressed me. I believe that it was in no small part, due to Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary. He is a conservative Bishop, going as far as to tell former Prime Minister Jean Chretien in 2003, that he risked his eternal salvation in supporting homosexual marriage. Obviously, he does not stress the differences between Roman Catholicism and Evangelical Protestantism, else the ‘Alpha’ training would not have included Roman Catholics. Respecting each others’ differences while focusing on common beliefs, I think Jesus would like that.
That church has dropped a long ways since I used to go there, but that was the late 90s.