Posted on 05/09/2013 7:09:40 AM PDT by mgist
hi friends - I wrote the piece quoted in the opening post in this thread some years back; I’ve found the discussion here interesting :)
That’s exactly right, Liberty was Independent Baptist affiliated when I went there, but I was myself a Southern Baptist, still a member of a Southern Baptist church back in Georgia - there were lots of different denominations represented there - I even met a Catholic international student :)
As far as boasting, I hope if I was boasting at all it was over what God did for me by leading me as He did. In Protestant circles we called that “giving one’s testimony.”
I’ve heard plenty of testimonies of former Catholics who really bad-mouthed the Catholic Church, who gave no balance to what they said, not even affirming anything positive. I hope I didn’t come across as doing that in my piece, because I really experienced a lot of positives in my years as an Evangelical and at Liberty. Our Lord led me on from there, but I still value those years of growth.
I pray that there will be no more competition between Christians, when we can unite against our common foe, the devil and the world that is under his sway, and who aimed to destroy us. Dividing us against ourselves in the past 500 years has worked so well in his favor, unfortunately.
pax
-—todd
You'll soon learn if there's a line you won't cross.
Welcome home Todd.
Welcome Home!!!! God is good.
Great prayer. Jesus asked that we be one. He warned us against calumny and bickering. Any church that bad mouths others is likely false.
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