Posted on 11/10/2014 5:38:48 PM PST by Coleus
Mon. Nov. 10 at 8:00 PM ET Tue. Nov. 11 at 1:00 AM ET Fri. Nov. 14 at 1:00 PM ET DALE AHLQUIST
Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society and former Baptist, joins Marcus to talk about his journey home to the Catholic Church.
Me too!
Ain’t it strange that no one ever posts a story about someone leaving Catholicism and becoming a baptist?
He was called the “Father of Jesus Rock.” Everyone who was an Evangelical or Pentecostal Christian in the 1970s knew who he was. He wrote such songs as “I Wish We’d All Been Ready,” “U.F.O.,” “One Way,” “I Am a Servant,” and “Righteous Rocker, Holy Roller.” He was the one who lamented playfully, “Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?” He had brilliant lyrical and musical gifts. He could hold audiences in the palm of his hand, easily making them roll with laughter, rock with praise, or be quiet and thoughtful. His name was Larry Norman — and he was married to my sister.
...that any Catholic on this board will believe.
Go ahead and post a good conversion story. Try and find a former Catholic theologian that finally said he had been wrong his whole life so he decided to become a baptist, pentacostal, presbyterian, lutheran, whatever.
great, welcome to the church!
I’ve met a lot of converts from Roman Catholicism to protestantism, but I find that evangelicals would rather highlight converts from atheism. The Journey Home’s focus on people converting from protestantism shows, to me, that too many Catholics are more interested in scoring points against protestants, than in winning souls from atheism for Christ. That seems to be the work of evangelical protestants.
“Ain’t it strange that no one ever posts a story about someone leaving Catholicism and becoming a baptist?”
Ever?
“Try and find a former Catholic theologian that finally said he had been wrong his whole life so he decided to become a baptist, pentacostal, presbyterian, lutheran, whatever.”
Well, wait a minute. I don’t know about “a former Catholic theologian” but there’s Richard Bennett - a former Catholic priest - who I believe is now Baptist or Presbyterian (or Reformed Baptist). There are others out there too.
Not saying there are not many fallen away Catholics that are now protestants. But tell me how many former Catholic theologians, well-grounded in the Christian faith, decided Catholism was in error so they jumped to protestantism. I guess there might be one out there but I’ve never heard of any. Now there are plenty of former Catholics that were never strong Catholics to start with that become protestant. Hardly any were devout that attended Mass on a regular basis. That hardly ever happens. There’s literally hundreds of thousands of astute former protestants that knew the Bible from cover to cover that become Catholic. And none of them do it on the spur of the moment. It is always a well-rounded decision they came to after years of studying the Christian faith and praying a lot. Many former protestant pastors have converted, not too many former Catholic priests, unless he wanted to get married and couldn’t in the Catholic faith. That’s usually why a Catholic priest leaves the faith, and that’s not too many.
“The Journey Home’s focus on people converting from protestantism shows, to me, that too many Catholics are more interested in scoring points against protestants, than in winning souls from atheism for Christ.”
No. It’s just that the most common Catholic converts in the English speaking world are Protestants.
“That seems to be the work of evangelical protestants.”
Well, at least Protestants might be doing a very useful thing. Catholics have been introducing people to Christ for 2,000 years. Protestants can stand to do a little constructive work.
Plenty of those stories out there but they are picked up by sites that hurt Catholic's feelings and thus are banned from being sources of information...
Near as I can tell, the only reason numerous sites you guys reference aren't banned is because we don't whine about them...
I know of some Jesuits who left the church to follow the gay lifestyle. Close enough?
I love Dale Ahlquist. So kind and funny in the same way Chesterton must have been.
That's a good point.
Most priest that left the faith for left to get married.
One thing all these Protestant converts seem to have in common is there is never a testimony trusting and accepting Jesus as their Savior before leaving Protestantism...In other words, while they attended Protestant churches, they were not Christians...
“Plenty of those stories out there but they are picked up by sites that hurt Catholic’s feelings and thus are banned from being sources of information”
Why don’t you find us a few. Would love to read to read them. I can’t seem to find any.
The only ones that get their feelings hurt are protestants when one of their own jump ship. They of course attack the fellow and say he was just stupid of the gospel. That no sane thinking person could possibly become Catholic, after being brainwashed into believing that Catholics were the children of Satan.
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