Posted on 09/20/2014 8:16:26 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Lou Everett was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses for more than 14 years. During that time, he served as a full-time minister as well as other major roles within the congregation. Lou’s journey to the Catholic Church was truly a rough road traveled.
From Jehovah’s Witnesses to Catholicism: My Journey
In 2005, I find myself inside a Catholic church for midnight mass. My future wife, born and raised in the Catholic Church, by my side; silently showing me something that I never thought I’d see or feel. At the age of 31, a realization set in that I never would have expected to occur – thus begins another part of my journey to the Church, my home.
Peering back into my childhood, I realize that my journey actually began as a child. My father was in the military so our family traveled around quite a bit. I was born in San Francisco, California while my father was stationed there in the Army in 1974. Both of my parents are ‘cradle’ Catholics and had very different experiences with the Catholic Church. Throughout the various moves from place to place, my parents were contacted by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their message seemed to touch my parents enough to eventually become baptized in 1984 as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Excellent! Outstanding!
Dear narses,
I am awaiting your answer to my question.
If I believe something that hundreds of millions of other Christians believe, in what sense is it my own personal interpretation?
YOU never answered.
Wow. He worships the Mass instead of going to mass to worship the lord? It is the mass that fulfils him? We are never outside of God and his holy spirit. The presence does not just exist in some building called a church. It is everywhere.
That sounds ridiculous to me.
Yes I did.
But then, what does it matter?
In the Religion forum, on a thread titled Jehovah’s Witness Convert, GeronL wrote:
Wow. He worships the Mass instead of going to mass to worship the lord? It is the mass that fulfils him? We are never outside of God and his holy spirit. The presence does not just exist in some building called a church. It is everywhere.
That sounds ridiculous to me.
And you OBVIOUSLY failed to paste the post I was referring to.
Which puts my response in context, which you did not on purpose.
Would you link you answer to this question please. I must have missed it.
If I believe the same thing as hundreds of millions of Christians - or even just one other Christian - how can that be my own personal interpretation?
AMPU,
Are you having a difficult day? When someone answers your post, that number is in the bottom line of the bracket of the post.
Been like that for a long time. It’s easy to figure out what a person is posting to.
Salvation,
Thank you for trying to help, but I believe you misunderstand.
Hence the protesters who continually re-form whatever historical churches they find in their generation into new flavors of denominations, sects, and cults. I suppose it is more an art than anything else. What do they have in common ? They protest too much against the one holy, catholic, and apostolic church.
I agree with you...I was just pointing out that the Catholics claim that the God they worship is the same Christ-less God of the muzlims, Mormons and JWs...
That’s possible. I thought you might have never noticed the return numbers. My mistake.
This is not a true statement. Where are you getting your mistaken information?
Thanks for jumping in to help! I appreciate your kindness.
How indeed?
“Unless you eat the FLesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood you do not have life within you”
Your sect or splinter group doesn’t - Catholics do - your loss.
Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam
Vampire Sect
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