So why is Tim Pereira, 30, now an evangelical?
Papist to American evangelical may be just one step on the road to completely irreligious.
Read Julia Duin's Quitting Church.
Her reporting is (mostly) anecdotal, and I find her recommendations appalling. But, worth a read.
The article quotes Pew as saying 60% of American ex-Catholics become non-believers while 40% become Protestant.
The latter statistic is clear progress, and the former statistic may simply mean some people have to hit rock bottom before they can see any light at all.
I really pin a lot of hope on 1 Corinthians 3. Paul fed some of the fledgling flock with milk because they were still “babes in Christ.” But he was still confident that those who matured in faith would eventually answer “yes” to his question: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
Those in Rome are being fed lies. Those in the Protestant mega-churches are being fed milk. When God gives men a hunger for meat, He will direct their steps to a stronger, more Scriptural church. Our job as members of those churches is to “speak the word without fear” and to remind men of the “sweet savour of Christ.”