>Given the ignorance of your post, I would strongly suggest you join Salvation’s ping list to the daily Mass readings. They conver the entire bible (Old and New Testaments) in the span of 3 years. You might actually learn something.
Given the ignorance of the article I would strongly suggest reading some of the sermons of John Piper, John MacArthur, R.C. Sproul, James White, Al Mohler or any other Calvinist. This self named ex-pharisee does not present his old faith honestly, or he did not understand it.
As for reading RCC, I had enough of that when I was one. Funny, the priest never spoke of the Gospel, and I had to hear it from a Lutheran pastor. Oh, I heard plenty of Mary and the saints, but naught of the Gospel. My Grandmother, a life-long Catholic, said she never knew the Gospel, and thankfully was given it in the last days of her life, when she accepted Jesus Christ as her savior. Until then she was unsure that she was saved. She was taught by the nuns and priests that assurance was arrogance.
As for reading the Bible, how can you suggest this? Has it been infallibly interpreted yet? If not, do you not risk interpreting something wrong, and wander off the reservation? It used to be something which was not recommended without the guidance of a priest. Has that changed?
I myself, read the bible constantly, thanks. Currently in Judges for personal study, being preached James in church, and Exodus in church bible study, as well as whatever chapter Biblegateway.com is using for its verse of the day to start the day.
I AM a Calvinist. The Scripture is the center and authority of our spiritual lives. I understand that I am no better than any other sinner, and no matter what I do cannot make myself less offensive to God, but only God can do this within me.
The only thing I can boast about is Christ and His Resurrection. In challenging Roman traditions I am defending the Gospel, as written in the Scriptures, not attempting to put myself above anyone else, no matter what you think.
Well you're certainly putting yourself above the Catholic Church.
You've just spent several paragraphs trashing it.
Preaching "Christ and His Resurrection" need not even mention the Catholic Church. It should be a stand alone issue, I believe. If you want to preach the Gospel, then preach it. There's no need for that to include a negative message about other churches.
The above post makes you sound very little like an evangelist and more like a man who just wants to vent.
The reading from the Gospel occurs at every mass and is the culmination of the liturgy of the word, the first half of the service. This was true as much before the Vatican II reform as after, and indeed back to apostolic times. To say that you never heard the Gospel in a Catholic Church is just an out and out lie, unless you stopped up your ears with wax.
“....when I was one”
That explains everything.