It is My Soul ... Not the Church’s
I prefer to maintain it that way, I go to functions from a variety of denominations and I guess that is because I am used to Military Services...
Your Post/Thread made me think and at the moment the best I can come up with is I don’t want to join a club or be limited or have to choose one over another, I pretty much enjoy and appreciate all of them .. including some (that I did in the past) think were odd.
In the end I am sure I will know and I don’t fear that end.
God made me to know him, to love him, and to serve him in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next.” Here, in just 26 words, is the whole reason for our existence. Jesus answered the question even more briefly: “I came so that [you] might have life and have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).
The mission of the Church is to help us be with God when we die for our eternal salvation. Catholics believe that Christ founded a visible Church—which subsists in the Catholic Church—and has protected its doctrines from error.
The Church offers the Sacraments that Christ provided for our benefit. Baptism, Confession and the Eucharist where we can receive the Body and Blood of Christ and 4 other sacraments.
Jesus said it is not enough to have faith in him; we also must obey his commandments. “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do the things I command?” (Luke 6:46, Matt. 7:21–23, 19:16–21).
All the alternatives to Catholicism are showing themselves to be inadequate: the worn-out secularism that is everywhere around us and that no one any longer finds satisfying, the odd cults and movements that offer temporary community but no permanent home, even the other, incomplete brands of Christianity. As our tired world becomes ever more desperate, people are turning to the one alternative they never really had considered: the Catholic Church. They are coming upon truth in the last place they expected to find it.
So. Do you need the other members of the Body? Tagline.
For as the body is one, and has many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also is Christ.<
For the body also is not one member, but many.
If the foot should say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
And if the ear should say, because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
But now God has set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him.
And if they all were one member, where would be the body?
But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.
And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help; nor again the head to the feet: I have no need of you.
That there might be no schism in the body; but the members might be mutually careful one for another.
And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it; or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.
Now you are the body of Christ, and members mutually of one another.
Good post.