I think we’re lucky to have quite a few good thinkers on this site. I appreciate your insights and pray with all my heart my dear Catholic Mother understands, or one day will, the Gospel as well as you seem to. A Christian is one who is one in the heart and external labels and manner of worship are unimportant when it come down to what our relationship is with the Lord. We are saved by grace alone through faith alone and good works are the outward sign of an inward changed spirit. It appears to me, you “get it”.
1 John 4:9-11
Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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