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To: metmom; Salvation; ebb tide
I used to wear one when they were required for mass when I was a kid pre V2.

At what point in your life were you drawn away from the Catholic Church and by which formula?

88 posted on 06/28/2014 6:00:33 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer

FOTFLOL!!!!

Nobody worked on me and I wasn’t drawn away from the church.

I left of my own volition and years later came to accept Christ and was born again.

At that point, when I started going back to church, I began attending the Catholic church I was raised in. I also had gone out and bought a Bible, not because anyone told me to, but because I felt the need to.

And I started reading it on my own, not because anyone told be to but because I was hungry to know the word. I was not coached or *discipled* about those things. I just had the conviction that I needed to do that, from the Holy Spirit.

As I read and attended the Catholic church for months, I saw the disparity between what Scripture taught and what the Catholic church taught. And it grew wider the more time went on.

And I was not being coached or mentored by any Protestants and told what to do.

I began attending an Evangelical church on the invitation of a friend and vacillated between the two for several more months until I made the break with the Catholic church.

Someone who is not born again and does not have the Holy Spirit residing in them cannot understand the leading of him in ones life and the enlightening work He does in the heart and mind.

So, no. No formulas. Formulas may lure people from one denomination to another, but they save no one.


89 posted on 06/28/2014 6:14:34 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: NYer
At what point in your life were you drawn away from the Catholic Church and by which formula?

HMMMmmm...

So THIS is where MORMONism gets it from!

91 posted on 06/28/2014 6:49:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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