Posted on 06/15/2014 9:09:26 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
Time magazine recently wrote a report on the rise of Latino evangelical churches in the U.S., calling their exponential growth "a signal of a new Reformation," even as they seem invisible to mainstream American culture. The report said Latino evangelicals are one of the fastest-growing segments of the churchgoing population, resulting from the conversion of millions of Spanish-speaking Catholics to Protestantism in the past few years.
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For more on the Hispanic Reformation, here is a direct link to the Time Magazine article referenced:
http://nation.time.com/2013/04/04/the-rise-of-evangelicos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+delicious%2Fgqlf+%28Christian+Headlines+Top+Headlines%29#ixzz2PnitlZBd
Most of the “converts” are probably not converting, but were nominal Catholics. Just as Luther and Calvin were the wake up call resulting in the Counter-revolution, the evangelization of Hispanics (and Africans and Koreans) may be the wake up call to the Catholic Church today. As a Lutheran, I welcome it.
Catholics need to rediscover the Bible.
Most of the “converts” are probably not converting, but were nominal Catholics.
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Since I work with them, I can tell you that this is very true. I am happy to see that many are becoming serious about God. I have also personally seen many commit and/or re-commit themselves to Christ in their Catholic faith.
Jesus is LORD!
The Dreamers® are going to vote conservative too- you’ll see! that’s what they keep telling us! Mars and skyscrapers, here we come!!
Those converted to Iglesia Bautista or at least some variety of fundamental Protestantism are very likely to vote majority conservative. Those remaining in Catholicism will vote for more socialism. This pattern has been borne out repeatedly over decades.
This is good news for those of us who oppose abortion and gay marriage.
Common sense would say that the people joining Evangelical churches are the ones seeking a closer relationship with God, not the indifferent, just casually leaving their family’s Catholic church, to become active Evangelicals.
I haven’t found any data that supports the claim that it is the indifferent Hispanics who are seeking out a more passionate and conservative Christian church.
When they become the majority in a few years, let’s just say I’m not real hopeful.
By the way, traditionally Catholic countries have as many Church-goers, or as few, as any Protestant or non-Christian country.
There will probably be as many fallen-away Protestants as there were fallen-away Catholics.
Yes, it's nice and welcoming. And you already know that sooner or later there will be "fallen Lutherans-former Catholics."
Wake up calls for sure.
And all those now-Catholic Tennessee folks will eventually have their own "fallen Catholics."
God will judge us all, each according to His Divine Will. I welcome ALL Christians to the fold of Jesus.
That isn’t the point, this is about help for our conservative, pro-life politics.
We see some hope in diluting the effect of the destruction caused by the mass Catholic immigration we suffer from.
“They will come home.”
Far better they should come to Christ for salvation!
"mass Catholic immigration"--from where? Mexico? Latin America? As least they are Christian!
Why are Catholics, per se, a cause for your or anyone's "suffering"??
What "destruction" have the immigrant Catholics caused?
"diluting the effect of the destruction"--HOW are we (NOT ME) "diluting" the effect? By badmouthing Catholics?
How have YOU "suffered" from this "mass immigration"??
How are "we suffering" from them? I'm NOT.
Mexicans don't believe in abortion. Most are very conservative. I lived and worked in Mexico City two years. That is what I remember about them.
I won’t get into all the pain that I have seen come from mass immigration and what it did to our incomes and jobs and how it destroyed our communities, our culture and our nation, and our future.
I will point out that converting democrat voters to pro-life republican voters is a good thing.
Remember politics? pro-life?, pro-marriage? all those things that we are really at freerepublic to promote and fight for?
As it stands, Hispanic Protestants are still over 50% democrat/lean democrat, and that number will increase.
But some people continue to insist that the socialist wave is Catholic nonetheless, regardless of the proof presented to them to the contrary. Why? I suppose because some people are liars who value their agenda more than the truth.
Yep, baptized members of the Catholic church.
That is why they “convert”, they are not becoming members of a church for the first time, they are either leaving the catholic church for no church, or joining another Christian church.
It is ridiculous to pretend that the nations south of the US are not catholic nations and that the immigrants are not overwhelmingly catholic.
Besides, what does that have to do with this great news for our conservative, pro-life politics?
We should be rejoicing.
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