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To: Quix; adiaireton8
It sounds or feels like there's been no change in the understanding of the hearer about what I was trying to say.

Who better to hear you, than someone who has been where you are?! adiaireton8 is a lifelong Protestant who recently converted to the Catholic Church. This is not something one does on a whim. This is often a very painful process as it entails leaving friends and loved ones, behind.

Christ through His Church offers us the fruit of the tree of life through the sacraments and especially the Eucharist. But we already see the fruit of the tree of the 'knowledge' of good and evil, in the destruction of Christian unity into 20,000+ sects, with further fragmentation occuring on a daily basis, contrary to Christ's prayer in John 17 that Christians would all be "perfected in unity".

Back in 1978, a Pentecostal minister by the name of Alex Jones decided to do some research and offer his congregation a 'New Testament' worship service. They were all in favor. He turned to the Church Fathers , to understand how they worshiped the Lord in the first centuries following His death and resurrection. What he discovered, forever altered his relationship with our Lord.

To illustrate what he was talking about, in the spring of 1998 he re-enacted an early worship service, never intending to alter his congregation’s worship style. “But once I discovered the foundational truths and saw that Christianity was not the same as I was preaching, some fine-tuning needed to take place.”

The end result was this.

1,624 posted on 10/26/2006 4:33:37 PM PDT by NYer (Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to Heaven. St. Rose of Lima)
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To: NYer

My suspicion is that his psychology had more to do with his changes than his research with The Fathers.

Sad he turned a whole flock back to TRADITION vs more to Christ.


1,640 posted on 10/26/2006 5:06:24 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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