I would have to say that I was scared and my wife approached terrified. Both of us did recruit (Our pastor called it evangelizing) new members and it was reassuring that we had made the right choice, and we justified it because "Catholics aren't really christian."
The final straw came when out pastor said it was okay to "poach sheep" from other protestant denominations.
This began out long long journey that resulted in out entering full communion with the Catholic Church almost 10 years ago.
Sad!
Catholic and Protestant are called “The Whore and her daughters” by Yeshua in his Revelation.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
That man may have had impure motives. But he thought himself in the right, didn't he? For him to have that attitude is wrong? But it's ok to do whatever it takes to "poach sheep" from among "protestants"?
Can you see the inconsistency? If it is right for one to do, then it cannot be condemned by that person when they see the same thing in others, lest the scales find hypocrisy and one be cast out to outer darkness.
Then again, Christ's own sacrifice was enough. We can any of us be forgiven, even for hypocrisy. Yet we must move away from it, as much as we can.
I do suggest not condemning "poaching" when one is themselves all for "poaching", when it come's to one's own practices.
Try another avenue. That road which you appear to me to be traveling, is choked with mud.