I am coming home!

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I have been really seeking and searching for the Truth. I think God has been patient with me and he has been working on my heart since 1985. I just did not think that my journey would be the way he turned out to be. Being in the International Churches of Christ was a great experience but obviously after all the recruiting like techniques and seeing that people were more interested in number than really helping each grow more spiritual and in God’s grace daily, it was not the place to be. I still remember that meeting I had with one evangelist and I saw so much evil in him. This was a turning point and many other things. I felt that after trying many times, this was not God’s Kingdom. Afterward it was dealing with the guilt, surely I was lost type of feeling, I left the only true church…type guilt. This time was my own 40 year in the desert. I felt like God was not real. Maybe, the Bible was just a nice book. Maybe I just had to have my own Christianity and my own relationship with God. In the past year, I have seen I was not the leader of my family that I needed to be. We started to visit that Lutheran Church, which was really nice… For some reason after much praying and seeking in the Word of God, I was drawn toward the Catholic Church. The last two months I have been wrestling with the Word and taking a different look. First, the New Testament as we know was in fact written by Christians who were part of the Catholic Church. The early Christians both used the Canon Scriptures and the Tradition to live and their Christian life and grow closer to God. Several popes existed before even the New Testament was put together, and the Christians who put the New Testament together were part of the Catholic Church that I rejected when studying the bible. The Church was not created with the New Testament as a base, but the Church wrote the New Testament. But also they used Church Tradition to grow in their knowledge of Jesus and in his Grace. Now it was not “What would Jesus do”, but using teachings that had been put together since the time of the first Christians. Now looking at the Scripture and the Tradition of the Catholic Church (Catechism) put everything in place like a carefully built puzzle or beautiful building. Everything made sense. One thing I had now that I did not have when I grew up in the Catholic Church was my love for the Lord. So 26 years ago I was only a spectator to something that did not make sense to me. If you had told me that I would go back home to the Catholic Church I would have laughed at you. I have never been so happy and my joy is complete. I started to realize that I was not the only one and others like me even ministers experienced what I did experience. After 26 years I am finally coming home and my goal is to grow in the Grace of God be a better father and example for my family, share with others to help them seek the truth. I have had some of my most profound Bible studies in the past weeks. I am home!🙂 Jean
 
You sound like me in 2005-I left the catholic faith after I went into the air force and switched to the baptist faith. I was baptist for some number of years until 2005, when our late great pope fell ill and passed away-I had several incidences that pulled me back. One-at the base exchange, while shopping for garden supplies, I went into the electronics area and saw everyone gathered to watch the decision process on the next pope. While standing there, for some odd reason, I suddenly knew it was Ratzinger (still don’t know how I knew)-I mentioned his name. Shortly after, the announcement was made and the man standing next to me-well-his jaw dropped to the floor. A few days later, at my reserve unit, the chaplain office was next to our office, I went to talk to an assistant to ask about talking to a catholic priest. No one but a chaplain was there-didn’t know what denomination he was-he offered to talk and I just stated that I needed to see if there is a catholic priest available. He was the priest-lol! It’s as if God allowed the events to unfold to bring me back home to my faith. Two weeks later, I went to my first confession in nearly 20 years and came back home-what an awesome feeling! Yes-it is a wonderful feeling to be back home. Welcome home!! Being a revert has it’s advantages-you tend to appreciate the little things about your catholic faith that is easily taken for granted in the past. Seems that the reverts are more grounded in their faith being that we went to the other side and came back. :hug3::amen:
 
Congratulations!!! I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear this! My best friend right now is looking into Catholicism, and I am watching, thrilled, as he discovers, little by little, the truth of the Catholic faith. Six months ago, he was staunchly anti-Catholic, and it just excites me to see how far he has come! I hope and trust that someday he will be able to say, as you have, that he is “coming home.”
 
Welcome to the party. There is much joy and peace at this party. The Truth will do this for us, U know :bounce:
 
[SIGN]Welcome Home!!![/SIGN]

:extrahappy::extrahappy::extrahappy: :extrahappy::extrahappy::extrahappy:

[SIGN]Thanks be to God.[/SIGN]

I will be praying for you. So are you entering next Easter?

God bless. :signofcross:
 
Thank you so much for your encouragements.
God was patient with me and is with many. I plan to share my experience and encourage others who are seeking the truth like I have been doing. Jean:)
 
jeanfor said:
I have never been so happy and my joy is complete.

After 26 years I am finally coming home and my goal is to grow in the Grace of God be a better father and example for my family, share with others to help them seek the truth.
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Congratulations, may God continue to bless you, and welcome home! 😃 :hug1:
 
jeanfor said:
I have been really seeking and searching for the Truth. I think God has been patient with me and he has been working on my heart since 1985. I just did not think that my journey would be the way he turned out to be. Being in the International Churches of Christ was a great experience but obviously after all the recruiting like techniques and seeing that people were more interested in number than really helping each grow more spiritual and in God’s grace daily, it was not the place to be. I still remember that meeting I had with one evangelist and I saw so much evil in him. This was a turning point and many other things. I felt that after trying many times, this was not God’s Kingdom. Afterward it was dealing with the guilt, surely I was lost type of feeling, I left the only true church…type guilt. This time was my own 40 year in the desert. I felt like God was not real. Maybe, the Bible was just a nice book. Maybe I just had to have my own Christianity and my own relationship with God. In the past year, I have seen I was not the leader of my family that I needed to be. We started to visit that Lutheran Church, which was really nice… For some reason after much praying and seeking in the Word of God, I was drawn toward the Catholic Church. The last two months I have been wrestling with the Word and taking a different look. First, the New Testament as we know was in fact written by Christians who were part of the Catholic Church. The early Christians both used the Canon Scriptures and the Tradition to live and their Christian life and grow closer to God. Several popes existed before even the New Testament was put together, and the Christians who put the New Testament together were part of the Catholic Church that I rejected when studying the bible. The Church was not created with the New Testament as a base, but the Church wrote the New Testament. But also they used Church Tradition to grow in their knowledge of Jesus and in his Grace. Now it was not “What would Jesus do”, but using teachings that had been put together since the time of the first Christians. Now looking at the Scripture and the Tradition of the Catholic Church (Catechism) put everything in place like a carefully built puzzle or beautiful building. Everything made sense. One thing I had now that I did not have when I grew up in the Catholic Church was my love for the Lord. So 26 years ago I was only a spectator to something that did not make sense to me. If you had told me that I would go back home to the Catholic Church I would have laughed at you. I have never been so happy and my joy is complete. I started to realize that I was not the only one and others like me even ministers experienced what I did experience. After 26 years I am finally coming home and my goal is to grow in the Grace of God be a better father and example for my family, share with others to help them seek the truth. I have had some of my most profound Bible studies in the past weeks. I am home!🙂 Jean
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welcome Home from a fellow convert.
 
Welcome home!

Blessed be God, Trinity Most Blessed! What an awesome outpouring of graces! Thank God for responding to His call, to His love.

For those who have this emptiness in their heart, for those who are seeking the Truth, for those who are carrying heavy burdens, for those thinking of God or longing to know and draw closer to Him, Our Good Lord Jesus is always right there waiting for you each and every one of you. He loves you dearly and immensely beyond human comprehension. God calls each and every one of you by name and have a purpose so unique ONLY YOU can do it. All you have to do is to open your heart to Him and allow Him to come. Take that step towards Him. He will help you the rest of the way. He wants you to experience a drop of that Love that He has for you before you were even formed in your mother’s womb. In Him you will have this Peace in your heart that surpasses all human understanding. In Him you will find joy, experience His unfathomable & endless Love and Mercy. You will have contentment in your heart that you are “finally home” in the ONLY Church He has founded - The Catholic Church. Then you can finally say “The search is over.”

May the rest of humanity draw closer to Our Good Lord Jesus and love Him the way He needed to be loved.

Always remember that living a Christian life is not easy but with God’s grace we can do it. We are never alone for Our Good Lord Jesus promised that He will be with us 'till the end of time. And once you find Him, CLING to Him no matter what happens and NEVER LET HIM GO, not even for a moment.

Praying for you and for all!
 
Beloved friend,

My heart is filled with joy that you are home! It’s like a lost child that has been found. And of that we praise God that you have come back. I know all of Heaven is rejoicing. Ah, to be there. But on earth, I am going to the store and will buy a small cake in your honor. What kind do you like? And sing for your homecoming. Seriously.

Oh Praise be to God from whom all blessings flow! From all of us on earth:

:clapping::harp: And from me: §❤️❤️:flowers:❤️❤️§:bowdown2::yyeess:
:grouphug:

Love you,
Sheila
 
jeanfor said:
I First, the New Testament as we know was in fact written by Christians who were part of the Catholic Church. The early Christians both used the Canon Scriptures and the Tradition to live and their Christian life and grow closer to God. Several popes existed before even the New Testament was put together, and the Christians who put the New Testament together were part of the Catholic Church that I rejected when studying the bible. The Church was not created with the New Testament as a base, but the Church wrote the New Testament. But also they used Church Tradition to grow in their knowledge of Jesus and in his Grace.
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Yes!. This was also very convincing to me.

I love this quote from Cardinal Newman (a convert from Anglicanism):
“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”

Welcome home! . . . :hug1:

:blessyou:
 
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