Belonging to a religion/church/faith

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I sometimes wonder how many times the average person changes churches/faiths in their lifetime.
Leaving a church and coming back to the same church without joining another would fall under one church/faith because you didn’t join another while you were away.
 
I am a cradle Catholic that at the age of 4 my parents divorced. at the age of 9 I joined the baptist church with my grandmother. at age 12 I came back to the Catholic church.
 
As a child my parents attended the Church of the Nazarene, my dad was raised Church of Christ and my mom was raised…“Hardshell(Primitive) Baptist”…I was “convinced” at 19 and petitioned to join the Society of Friends…I am now 53.
 
I briefly attended a Methodist church as a kid. When I became a believer as an adult, I attended a Southern Baptist church, and when the pastor left to start his own denomination, attended that one for a while. For a couple years after that, I attended no church, but eventually became Catholic.
 
I went to a Catholic church my whole life. Received the Sacraments and am loyal to my Catholic church. I just couldn’t leave my church knowing the history and the fact that Jesus had founded it. How can one leave knowing Christ started this church?
 
Grew up Methodist…lived most of my life going to church because my mom wanted me to. God bless her for that!

Lived a portion of my life as an atheist and then once realizing the truth that God exists I had my “own religion” of making God who I thought He was.

God came into my life by the power of the Holy Spirit and finally and gradually revealed to me His Truth!

Glory to God the Father and His only Begotten Son who live and reign with the Holy Spirit…ONE GOD…forever…AND…ever!
Amen!
 
Baptized, confirmed, and married in the Lutheran church (ELCA). Joined an AoG youth group in college but remained Lutheran. Converted to Catholicism at age 22 and never looked back. 😃
 
I grew up Protestant/non-denominational but just converted to the Catholic Church. To be honest, when I was very young I thought I was Catholic because I took Catholic classes at school (this was in Germany). The first time I found out I wasn’t was in third grade. I was devastated! I went through a short period of anti-catholicism but thank God that’s over! I am soooo glad I am home! 😃
 
I was reared in Judaism (though with the understanding I was not a Jew due to my mother’s faith), joined a non-denom group as a teenager, joined the Catholic Church as a young adult and was there for 20+ years, went off to the Episcopalians for 2 years and now have made full circle and am back to Judaism.
 
a_cermak said:
I was reared in Judaism (though with the understanding I was not a Jew due to my mother’s faith), joined a non-denom group as a teenager, joined the Catholic Church as a young adult and was there for 20+ years, went off to the Episcopalians for 2 years and now have made full circle and am back to Judaism.
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Wow, to not know Christ, to know Christ, to not know Christ, to know Christ to not knowing him…is pretty confusing…accepting then rejecting, that must of been pretty hard.
 
a_cermak said:
I was reared in Judaism (though with the understanding I was not a Jew due to my mother’s faith), joined a non-denom group as a teenager, joined the Catholic Church as a young adult and was there for 20+ years, went off to the Episcopalians for 2 years and now have made full circle and am back to Judaism.
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I’d like to hear more of your story. PM me if you’d like. Very interesting.
 
I’ve always been Catholic but I have not always been an active Catholic. I need an option for that.
 
Raised Catholic, spent 4 years in the seminary, married in the church, and baptized my daughter in the Church. Left the church and have been attending Unitarian Universalist services since March of this year.
 
Atheist, Neopagan, Buddhist, Hindu, New Age Syncretist, Wiccan, Occultist, Neopagan, Agnostic, Undecided Christian, Evangelical Friend, Nondenominational Pentecostal, Foursquare Pentecostal, Catholic. What a long strange trip it’s been.
 
Been Catholic my whole life (62 years so far), though not always a good one. How can one turn away from Jesus, and the Eucharist, once you have known Him?
 
I was baptized in the Presbyterian Church, and spent my childhood there, and spent my adolescence/ first year of college in the evangelical/non-denominational community, before falling in love with the Catholic Church. I joined it in my last year of college.
 
ralphinal said:
I’ve always been Catholic but I have not always been an active Catholic. I need an option for that.
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You and me both. 😉 But you have always been Catholic in name and never joined another church, even when you weren’t an active Catholic. 🙂
 
strngrnrth said:
Atheist, Neopagan, Buddhist, Hindu, New Age Syncretist, Wiccan, Occultist, Neopagan, Agnostic, Undecided Christian, Evangelical Friend, Nondenominational Pentecostal, Foursquare Pentecostal, Catholic. What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Wow. No kidding.
 
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