Who or What is the True Church started by God ? I was bought up Catholic and went to Catholic Middle School. When I was a teenager, I wandered like most teenagers. I wasn't thinking about going to church. When I met my wife, her and her parents were going to a Pentecostal church. I went with her for two reasons. First I liked being with her and second the church seemed nice. I had no knowledge of this church. We were eventually married in the Pentecostal church and spent a few years there.
I started to get like everyone else and was judging everyone and everything. The day I judged my mother and thought she was going to hell, because she had not accepted Jesus as her personal savior I knew something was wrong. This was when the Holy Spirit spoke to me and I knew this was wrong. I knew it was time to leave this church and we looked for a church we felt comfortable in.
After a while of searching and going to many different churches, we ended up in the Lutheran church. The pastor was nice and the people were friendly. There was no judging or saying anything about other faiths. We spent quite a few years there and our three children were baptized there. One day the pastor spoke about holy communion and said it was only a symbol. The Holy Spirit spoke to me again and I knew it was time to leave.
I did not know what church to go to, but I knew I did not want the influence of any one church. I decided to study the history of religion. I read about the Early Church Fathers in a book that was given to me a long time ago by a friend in the Born Again church. I found that everything kept coming back to the Catholic Church.
One night while watching cable tv, I came across a channel called EWTN. I had never watched this channel before. On it was a show called the Journey Home and the Host was Marcus Grodi. He was speaking to a man named Scott Hahn. Scott Hahn was speaking about the reason why he converted to the Catholic Church. As I listened to him, he explained how the Holy Eucharist was The Body And Blood Of Jesus Christ.
I knew right then and there that I had to come back to the Catholic Church. I spoke to my wife, she spoke to the pastor. He explained that you can't have the children in two different churches. She prayed about is and decided to become Catholic. All of our three children became Catholic. I never disowned or stopped believing in the Catholic Church. I was just wandering as a youth.
The problem in the world today, is that there a thousands of different denominations. Every time someone does not like the church they are in, they start their own. The problem with this is that they only read the parts of scripture that fit their doctrines. They also try in interpret the scripture and then they misinterpret it.
You can't follow only part of what Jesus Christ taught. You must follow everything that Jesus Christ taught. For example they read about Nicodemus being told by Jesus that he must be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven. The problem is that they don't read all of the chapter and verses. They never read and understand the being Born Of Water and Spirit is Baptism. Another failure is that they don't read all the chapter and verses about Jesus speaking about Eating His Flesh and Drinking His Blood. They don't read the part about not having life in you and not being raised on the Last Day. They ignore the part where the believers can't accept this, because it is Paganism to eat flesh and drink blood.Then they decide to leave, leaving only the 12 Apostles.
Did Jesus rebuke them and say it's only a symbol ? No he did not rebuke them, because he meant what he said. Ask yourself, does your church believe this ? The only Church that believes this and does it is The Holy Catholic Church.
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