Posted on 09/20/2014 8:16:26 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Lou Everett was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses for more than 14 years. During that time, he served as a full-time minister as well as other major roles within the congregation. Lou’s journey to the Catholic Church was truly a rough road traveled.
From Jehovah’s Witnesses to Catholicism: My Journey
In 2005, I find myself inside a Catholic church for midnight mass. My future wife, born and raised in the Catholic Church, by my side; silently showing me something that I never thought I’d see or feel. At the age of 31, a realization set in that I never would have expected to occur – thus begins another part of my journey to the Church, my home.
Peering back into my childhood, I realize that my journey actually began as a child. My father was in the military so our family traveled around quite a bit. I was born in San Francisco, California while my father was stationed there in the Army in 1974. Both of my parents are ‘cradle’ Catholics and had very different experiences with the Catholic Church. Throughout the various moves from place to place, my parents were contacted by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their message seemed to touch my parents enough to eventually become baptized in 1984 as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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In the Bible Christ warns about hell many times. This person was not doing that.
As a Catholic, I found it offensive. Think about the tone of the messages.
How would you like it is someone said the same about all Protestants or non-Catholics?
“How would you like it is someone said the same about all Protestants or non-Catholics?”
It doesn’t bother me at all. Just because someone says something doesn’t make it true. Why go through life giving people that kind of power over you? Or perhaps you are looking to be offended?
It may be hard for you to wrap your brain around a conversion testimony, whether you can or not is of very little consequence.
If you want to consider it protestant bashing go for it.
And I still dont waste my time thinking about protestants and what they do or don’t think about.
I do enjoy reading conversion and reversion stories as exemplified by this very story and encourage all Catholic creepers to post as many as they can if for no other reason than it offends your tender sensibilities.
I did not curse. Do you not believe in the existence of hell? Do you not concur that all things that raise themselves up above Christ need to be put down?
Hell is a real place, “Salvation,” a place where certain things belong — anything that tries to usurp Christ.
Then you believe that Rome should be exalted *above* Christ?
Now *that* I find offensive.
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Of course “Protestant Christians” consider JWs and Mormons to be non-Christian.
Where do you get your opinions from?
Here’s one of my favorites:
Another Protestant Converts to Catholicism – Why?
APRIL 4, 2014
News broke in early March that well-known and highly influential Christian leader Ulf Ekman had converted to Roman Catholicism (hereafter RC). Ekman had served for many years as pastor of the charismatic church, Word of Life, in Uppsala, Sweden. My interest was stirred not only because of the impact Ekman’s “conversion” will have on others but also because he cites his son’s “conversion” to Catholicism as exerting an influence on his own thinking. Benjamin Ekman was a student of mine when I taught at Wheaton College, an exceptionally bright one at that.
But all of this raises yet again the question of why certain Protestants turn to Rome. Ekman himself cites his deep yearning for unity in the body of Christ as one of the principal factors.
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http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2014/04/another-protestant-converts-to-catholicism-why/
Guess he didn’t find Him among his protestant brethren.
“”Jehovah’s Witness, like Mormonism, is considered non-Christian by Catholics, not {AS} Protestant Christian.””
Where did you get this idea? “Jehovah’s Witnesses” are not considered to be Christian. They deny Christ as Deity.
Where did you get this idea? “Jehovah’s Witnesses” are not considered to be Christian. They deny Christ as Deity.
If this story had been posted about a conversion from Jehovah’s Witnesses to baptist, pentacostal, or any other protestant faith there would be no Catholic jumping on the thread to put the guy down. It is not my fault that hardly anyone ever posts a story about a protestant conversion. It is only when a person converts to Catholicism that he is viciously attacked for the conversion. It’s so predictable it’s boring.
Yet another weird post, I have no idea what you just posted.
“If this story had been posted about a conversion from Jehovah’s Witnesses to baptist, pentacostal, or any other protestant faith there would be no Catholic jumping on the thread to put the guy down.”
I only stepped in to wish that he also entrusted himself to Christ for salvation, since He alone is the source of salvation. Also that it is quite strange that the “conversion stories” you post never seem to mention the part about converting to Christ alone and seem to only be conversions to Catholicism.
Post as many as you wish. Being freed from life as a Watch Tower slave is excellent, no matter where he escaped to. Having eternal life through Christ is better than all!
Welcome home indeed.
Were you born to a single woman or a married woman ?
But Catholicism has never been about following the Father. They have a different god, sitting on a man’s throne. They kneel before this false-god - something Peter (whom they suppose was the first Holy Father) wouldn’t permit. But since Catholics won’t listen to the true Holy Father, they won’t listen to His Son either. And since they won’t listen to the Son, they won’t listen to His apostles either. Their man-made religion is as worthless as the JW’s. The poor fellow in the article sounds as though he was looking for the religion of the Holy Father. Too bad he stumbled into the ditch of Catholicism.
Which denomination, sect, or cult do you belong to ?
Did you make a mistake here or truly intend to include the Jehovah's Witnesses in your Protestant fold ? I suppose they are a Protestant cult after all.
From a Jehovah Witness to the Roman Catholic Church. Makes sense.
I hope you are being sarcastic, but I doubt it.
There is no place where a person can get closer to Jesus Christ than at a Mass where you can receive the Holy Communion. Only the Catholic and Orthodox churches have the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
One more thing - regardless of whether a lukewarm Catholic receives the Eucharist unworthily, he/she is still receiving the Body and Blood of the Lord. It’s a fact, not a belief. If their disbelief renders this experience boring, and causes them to choose another path, they are free to do so.
I’ll assume then you call someone else “Father” and you are unwilling to share the denomination, sect, or cult with which you are associated. This is a thread about a JW who left his cult.
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