It's Jesus All Or Nothing

  

 Does your church follow everything Jesus taught ? The only Church that follows everything Jesus taught is the Catholic Church. I was baptized in the Catholic Church, wandered around in my teens and early 20s. When I met my wife, her and her family were going to a Pentecostal church. I started going, because I like her and I was interested in the church. It was okay at first and we were married in that church. I did hear people make comments about the Catholic Church and it bothered me. One day I judged my mother and thought she was going to hell, because she did not accept Jesus as her personal savior. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and I knew this was wrong. I spoke to my wife and we left the Pentecostal church.

 After searching and going too many different churches, we ended up in the Lutheran church. We spent quite a few years as our children were young. One day the pastor said that communion was only a symbol. The Holy Spirit spoke to me again and I knew I had to leave that church. I decided that I did not want any influence from any one church, so I searched through the History Of Religion. It kept coming back to the Catholic Church, being the only Church started by God when Jesus gave Peter The Keys To The Kingdom. I happened to see a program on EWTN called The Journey Home. EWTN was the Catholic Channel on cable TV. I had never watched it before. The person on EWTN was Scott Hahn and he explained how he became Catholic due to the Holy Eucharist.

 I knew that I had to come back to the Catholic Church. I spoke to my wife and explained that she had to decide for herself. She spoke to the Pastor and Prayed about it, she decided to become Catholic and all our children became Catholic. I will never leave the Catholic Church again.

 Okay, back to the subject on the post. Have you ever had anyone tell you that all you had to do was believe in Jesus ? I have had various people from other churches tell me that. I even had a Pastor from a local church tell me that while he was at my door trying to get us to go to a barbecue at his church. I explained to him that you can not only believe in Jesus. He then said the old Jesus said you must be born again. I explained to him that you have to read all of what Jesus said and read all the scripture, otherwise you are taking it out of context. I told him if you read further that being Born Again was about Baptism. About being Born of Water and Spirit, which is Baptism.

 There are many times where a person tries to interpret scripture and they take it completely out of context. My own brother who is in a born again church does exactly that.He did it one time when he tried to convert me. He did not like that answers I was giving him and he stopped. I have had other friends through facebook and at various work places do the same thing. I know that their pastors do not want read all of scripture, because they know they would end up becoming Catholic.

 I had one friend who is in the Calvinist church say he admired that I loved Jesus  more that I loved the Catholic Church. I think he thought this, because our conversation was about Jesus. I thought about what he said and I realized that The Catholic Church is all part of Jesus. When I eat his flesh and drink his blood, he is in me and I am in him. We are one and that is a closer relationship then he will ever have.