A ray of hope...Protestant church admits that Catholics are right about something.

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Some of the on-line churches are even offering confession by computer:rolleyes: .
 
Steadfast said:
I get that, but why worry about the opinions of idiots and madmen?

Lutherans, at least, have always confessed that the Roman Church is a true Church with the means of Grace.

I’m pretty sure the Anglicans have agreed and there, between those two, you have the vast majority of Protestants.
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If you had ever lived in the “Bible Belt” you wouldn’t say that. The largest Protestant denomination in America isn’t the Lutherans or Episcopalians, but Baptists (Southern Baptists, if I remember correctly), and they most certainly do not hold that the Catholic Church is a true Church. So yes, there is plenty of room for concern here.
 
JoeyWarren said:
That was awesome Brad.

One truth inches it’s way in, maybe another later.
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I wouldn’t say it inched it’s way in. The teaching that believers should confess their sins to one another is not uncommon or new. I remember it from being very young in Sunday School and many many times in church since then. Remember, Protestants believe in the priesthood of all believers. I know of no denomination that denies it. It would be really be something new if someone taught that people should confess their sins to Church leaders only.
 
I would love to know the name of that megachurch and the pastor. I’m just wondering if there is any way we can get a copy of his sermon.
 
sadie2723 said:
Hello all!

I am thrilled to bring this thread to your attention today. I, of course, am a Catholic. My girlfriend is converting, and her family is VERY protestant.

Over the last weekend, she was down at her parents home, and went to church with them…their church is very fundamentalist evangelical, and it considers itself a Bible Church.

So the minsiter is preaching and teaching about how we need to confess our sins. Then it happens. He says to his flock, “Now I am a protestant minister, but let me tell you one place that we have got it all wrong. The Catholics teach that you need to confess to each other…and they are right.” At this point my girlfriend told me that you could have heard a pin drop in the mega-church.

He went on to back up what he had said with scripture from the Bible. By the end of the service, the congregation left in shock. However, my girlfrind did mention that she overheard more than a few people talking about the ministers teaching afterwords. Some were even saying things like, “I wonder if Catholics are right about anything else?”

I know that this is a small thing, but it is something. I hope that the minister continues to look into it…he may just find that the Catholics are supported by scripture ALL THE TIME.

Cheers!😃
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I was enrolled in a bible class in a community college (public) where the instructor (a Church of Christ minister) admitted that as far as the number of books in the Bible, the Catholic Church has it right. He also said that as far as what Jesus did prior to His cruxificion, Christians will simply have to accept what the traditional Catholic understanding of Holy Week. (He also claimed to be non-dogmatic).
 
I wouldn’t say it inched it’s way in. The teaching that believers should confess their sins to one another is not uncommon or new. I remember it from being very young in Sunday School and many many times in church since then.
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I never heard that bit of scripture until I started delving in apologetics. It’s one of those verses many Protestants steer around when conducting Bible Study or a Sermon.
 
JoeyWarren said:
I never heard that bit of scripture until I started delving in apologetics. It’s one of those verses many Protestants steer around when conducting Bible Study or a Sermon.
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I did a quick search on Google “confess your sins to one another” sermon and I got just about every major denomination with one sermon or another focusing on the verse. They had different takes on it but it didn’t look that uncommon to me. I have personally heard sermons on this at a 1 inter-denominational church, 1 Vineyard, and 1 Episcipal Church. And 2 of those multiple times. I went to a Baptist church for awhile when I lived with my mother (at her request) and I don’t recall it being preached there, but I didn’t attend that long there.
 
sadie2723 said:
Hello all!

I am thrilled to bring this thread to your attention today. I, of course, am a Catholic. My girlfriend is converting, and her family is VERY protestant.

Over the last weekend, she was down at her parents home, and went to church with them…their church is very fundamentalist evangelical, and it considers itself a Bible Church.

So the minsiter is preaching and teaching about how we need to confess our sins. Then it happens. He says to his flock, “Now I am a protestant minister, but let me tell you one place that we have got it all wrong. The Catholics teach that you need to confess to each other…and they are right.” At this point my girlfriend told me that you could have heard a pin drop in the mega-church.

He went on to back up what he had said with scripture from the Bible. By the end of the service, the congregation left in shock. However, my girlfrind did mention that she overheard more than a few people talking about the ministers teaching afterwords. Some were even saying things like, “I wonder if Catholics are right about anything else?”

I know that this is a small thing, but it is something. I hope that the minister continues to look into it…he may just find that the Catholics are supported by scripture ALL THE TIME.

Cheers!😃
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Nice!
At a non-denominational church that I attended (before I became Catholic) the pastor said that he agreed with the Catholic Church’s teachings on same-sex marriage, and said that the USCCB’s statement was very good. He even quoted it during a sermon once.
 
Syele said:
I did a quick search on Google “confess your sins to one another” sermon and I got just about every major denomination with one sermon or another focusing on the verse. They had different takes on it but it didn’t look that uncommon to me. I have personally heard sermons on this at a 1 inter-denominational church, 1 Vineyard, and 1 Episcipal Church. And 2 of those multiple times. I went to a Baptist church for awhile when I lived with my mother (at her request) and I don’t recall it being preached there, but I didn’t attend that long there.
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My Protestant Days were from 1970 to 1997. Never heard it preached from the Pulpit or inside of a Sunday School Room. I did not start surfing the web until 1999.
 
JoeyWarren said:
Speaking of Coming Home.

I spent each thursday for the past 6 weeks listening to Mike Cumbie at MikeCumbie.org.

EWTN needs to give him his own show.

A protestant channel surfing comes across him, they will stop to watch.
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Amen on Mr Cumbie the exBaptist preacher who is on fire for Jesus .
 
JoeyWarren said:
My Protestant Days were from 1970 to 1997. Never heard it preached from the Pulpit or inside of a Sunday School Room. I did not start surfing the web until 1999.
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Maybe you were absent that day or maybe your particular pastor just never happened to pick it as a sermon topic. How many churches did you attend and what denomination? I have a hard time believeing that all these churches hide their sermons on this subject online and the many I have heard personally are some freak fluke. The sermons on the internet are generally ones that are also preached from the pulpit. I have been in church since I was 3 days old and am still there. I’m not new to church.
 
However, my girlfrind did mention that she overheard more than a few people talking about the ministers teaching afterwords. Some were even saying things like, “I wonder if Catholics are right about anything else?”
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If nothing else, this more than made me smile. It’s small, but it’s a start.
 
Syele said:
I did a quick search on Google “confess your sins to one another” sermon and I got just about every major denomination with one sermon or another focusing on the verse. They had different takes on it but it didn’t look that uncommon to me. I have personally heard sermons on this at a 1 inter-denominational church, 1 Vineyard, and 1 Episcipal Church. And 2 of those multiple times. I went to a Baptist church for awhile when I lived with my mother (at her request) and I don’t recall it being preached there, but I didn’t attend that long there.
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Most excellent! I am very happy to hear that some other denominations are preaching and teaching that we should confess our sins to each other as scripture tells us. Now the only question is…why don’t they actually do it.

Don’t hit the quote button yet, as I have the answer to the question already…the reason that they don’t do it is because of absolution. You see, in order for this whole confessing your sins thing to work, you gotta know that the person you confess to can forgive loose those sins hear and in heaven. Well…that gets into a whole new ball of wax for our protestant brothers and sisters out there. For, they must then determine who Christ gave that authority to…and if you look too hard at that question, you might just find yourself down at your local Catholic Church.

I hope that my friends down at Northside start asking questions like the one I posed above. For if they do, they will find their way back home to Rome.

Cheers!
 
Brad, Don’t forget that protestants believe in the priesthood of all believers. So if we ask who has the authority… the protestant they ask will tell them all believers have the same authority as you ascribe to priests.
 
Syele said:
Brad, Don’t forget that protestants believe in the priesthood of all believers. So if we ask who has the authority… the protestant they ask will tell them all believers have the same authority as you ascribe to priests.
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Catholics believe partially some of that, Infact I should Direct you to The Canturbury Tales Blog who is a Catholic Priest who converted from Anglicanism. In his latest blog, he talks about the the notion of what the Church believes the priesthood is made up of:

cantuar.blogspot.com/2006/09/are-presbyters-priestly.html
 
Syele said:
Maybe you were absent that day or maybe your particular pastor just never happened to pick it as a sermon topic. How many churches did you attend and what denomination? I have a hard time believeing that all these churches hide their sermons on this subject online and the many I have heard personally are some freak fluke. The sermons on the internet are generally ones that are also preached from the pulpit. I have been in church since I was 3 days old and am still there. I’m not new to church.
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All of the churches I went to as a Protestant were of the Holy Roller types where Pastors don’t have any Theology Training what so ever. Even then my last 3 years of school when I lived with my grandparents, I attended a Methodist church. Still never heard these. But again I was born and raised in the ignornat south:D
 
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