As a certified MORMON, I'll say this. Our ex members are spergs that deserve a thread. It boils down to this: they are mad that dad made them go to church on Sunday, and possibly mad they haven't gotten laid yet because chastity until marriage is a thing (Russel Greer I'm looking at you). It's honestly pathetic.
Europe, missionary wise from what I've heard from guys that have been there is Hard mode. They are grumpy, set in their ways.
I feel as though the Catholic Church may have been irrevocably damaged by Pope Francis who, as of last summer, has now appointed 2/3rds of voting cardinals, ensuring they hold enough voting power to win the next Papal Election.
The real question is, it would work?, By the 2100s the overall quantity of honest christians will plumit to half or less than half the population and i wouldn't imagine the secular humanist agenda doing things easier if they are to obtain more influence, more if we take into account their current act of paradoxically diminishing christianity whilist shielding islam and other minority religions
Highly doompilled. Christianity has, in fact, been through darker times. Arguably this isn't even the first time a crisis of faith of this magnitude has happened.
Pew Research shows quite the opposite the total christian percentage of the population will grow globally by 2050 due to Africa's high birthrate and Europes low birth rate. I have no reason to see why churches in Africa will become more liberal, additionally the liberal cultural churches of the north (Church of England, Church of Norway/Sweeden/Denmark, and EKD in Germany) are rapidly hermoging membership and will soon go extinct, within a few decades the only churches left will be Conservative ones primarily centered out of the Global South, if they start to send missionaries into the spiritually dead north I see nothing that would stop them from planting the seeds of the faith. It worked in 1900, we took the largely animist sub-Saharan African and converted them, I see no reason to think they can't do the same to an entirely Atheist north.
I guess first, what does God mean to you? Have you read the Bible all the way through? Have you prayed about it?
I am also a nondenominational christian attending a nondom church. I would caution you against feeling you're required to join any one specific denomination because that would require you to have to defend their doctrine in their entirety or conceded that no one denomination holds a monopoly on truth. Because there are things that every denomination has which I feel is anti-biblical I refuse to tie myself to any specific denomination and prefer to remain a nondenomination Christian, finding value in many of their major faith traditions of Christianity though joining none.
I think though he is seeking a church to call home. Your position is still respectable however. I think you do have some good insights though in just not feeling pressured. Really I'd suggest prayer and bible study, first and foremost. Relaxation of the mind. You wont be able to feel out which church is the "right" one if you aren't in tune with the Spirit.
That's fair, When I became a Christian a few years ago I also went searching for the "correct" denomination before concluding that they all had some unbiblical doctrine I couldn't cosign. That is not to say I don't think people in denominations are doing something wrong or are bad. Far from it, I respect and listen to many different leaders from the more "conservative" denominations on Youtube (Protestant leader John MacArthur, Orthodox Priest Father Spyridon, and Catholic youtuber Pints with Aquinus) and while I don't always agree with every belief of these men I respect them and enjoy listening to their takes on different matters.
Really it's just feeling it out. Some will find a church and some won't. Honestly there are no wrong answers. I do like your conversion story btw.
That’s objectively the historical reason. There were problems with donations to the church being expropriated by the children of priests. Celibacy is also exhorted in the NT. In my personal experience, my parish priest has confided about frequently being called up by the local hospital. He says that in very many cases the patient is not Catholic at all, but the Orthodox/Anglican/Baptist priest has REFUSED to leave his marital bed.
It seems to be a basic tenant of Christianity.
The Church is just looking out for you.
You seem confused on what Papal infallibility is and is not. It refers only to matters of doctrine like Dignitas infinita, Laudato si and Humanae vitae. It doesn’t mean the various administrative decisions of the Pope are correct. Even rules like the prohibition on of priests marrying could be MISTAKES. They are not decreed as matters of doctrine.
Parable of the sower? Parable of the vineyard?
I haven't read the new testament fully since I was a child, but if it is complete and translated correctly in these videos, I'm touched. I'm not even through the book of Matthew, and I'm beginning to understand now the reverence with which Christians treat scripture. I never imagined a computer using voice samples would be capable of spreading and inspiring faith in the same way a preacher could. God bless Keith Szarabajka and whoever produced these.
He quit because he made the mistake of investigating the Vatican Bank. He's lucky he didn't get taken for a long drive off a short pier, actually.
Paganism is having a small resurgence in the Nordic Countries undoubtedly because these countries have National "Churches" which are all spiritually dead, preforming Gay Weddings, ordaining Women and the like. When you stop preaching unapologetic Christianity and conform to the standards of the world people who are searching for spiritual meaning and truth will turn elsewhere for it. Hence the rise in Nordic Paganism.
read the Bible if you haven't
