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To: RBStealth

**Protestantism ought to give way to Reformational catholicism.**

I think it slowly is happening. Anyone else?


41 posted on 11/08/2013 7:19:31 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

I think it’s slowly happening too, and it’s a good thing.

Progress is rarely, if not never made by telling people what they “lack”, rather the first step to true progress is by listening first and then responding with “I like that too”. And then building from there.

This is, I believe, what our Holy Father is proposing now. To go to people where they are, speak and listen to them first on their “terms”. Then, after finding something which is shared in common, working together to create something new for them; not actively seeking to destroy something in their lives (even if that something is against them).

Love doesn’t destroy for its own sake, for the sake of destruction only. Love always seeks to create something new, something better because it is an overflowing gift from God, who is Love, and thus the Creator. None of us would even be here if it weren’t for this true Love.

If anyone truly wants to be an instrument of His Love we must remember that.


48 posted on 11/08/2013 8:47:29 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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