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Sawyer_Seeker
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Hello - I posted the following mistakenly under the Sacred Scriptures forum. I thought perhaps it was more appropriate here.
Greetings,
This is my first post to the Catholic.com forums. I have become a recently listener to Catholic Answers Live, and have become incredibly fascinated with the historic Christian faith as preserved in tradition through the Roman Catholic Church.
A quick recap of my spiritual journey:
I was raised in Christian Science/Religious Science and various other ecclectic spiritualities including unitarianism. With the influence of my father, I also was influenced by fundemnetalist evangelical Christianity of the “pentecostal” or “charismatic” persuasion. At the age of fourteen, I joined the Mormon Church. At the age of 18, I left the Mormon church and returned to a traditional/orthodox view of Jesus Christ and had a profound conversion experience. I then studied ministry with a focus on world missions, but did not finish my studies due to a fragmentation in the organization I was a part of which was a result of moral failure in leadership.
I am now twenty-six years old, and work in Hotel management. I have just emerged from a season of studying various other world religions seriously including Islam and the Baha’i faith. During this time, I also began to seriously doubt the existence of God. About a year ago, I began the journey through daily repentance back into fellowship with Christ, and have been attending a fairly “balanced” evangelical church. I have also become very involved in a world missions organization that attempts to reach unreached people groups with the message of Christ.
Lately I have become convicted in my heart by the stability of doctrine and history which can be traced through the modern day Catholic church to the early apostles. I am in a place where I am even considering getting in touch with a local Priest in order to find out more about the faith.
My question for anyone is this: Does the Catholic church have any modern day missionary efforts which strive to reach the nearly 2.7 billion unreached people groups with the message of Christ’s atoning sacrifice?
I would be very curious in this answer before I begin any further deep investigation into the church.
God Bless -
Sawye
Greetings,
This is my first post to the Catholic.com forums. I have become a recently listener to Catholic Answers Live, and have become incredibly fascinated with the historic Christian faith as preserved in tradition through the Roman Catholic Church.
A quick recap of my spiritual journey:
I was raised in Christian Science/Religious Science and various other ecclectic spiritualities including unitarianism. With the influence of my father, I also was influenced by fundemnetalist evangelical Christianity of the “pentecostal” or “charismatic” persuasion. At the age of fourteen, I joined the Mormon Church. At the age of 18, I left the Mormon church and returned to a traditional/orthodox view of Jesus Christ and had a profound conversion experience. I then studied ministry with a focus on world missions, but did not finish my studies due to a fragmentation in the organization I was a part of which was a result of moral failure in leadership.
I am now twenty-six years old, and work in Hotel management. I have just emerged from a season of studying various other world religions seriously including Islam and the Baha’i faith. During this time, I also began to seriously doubt the existence of God. About a year ago, I began the journey through daily repentance back into fellowship with Christ, and have been attending a fairly “balanced” evangelical church. I have also become very involved in a world missions organization that attempts to reach unreached people groups with the message of Christ.
Lately I have become convicted in my heart by the stability of doctrine and history which can be traced through the modern day Catholic church to the early apostles. I am in a place where I am even considering getting in touch with a local Priest in order to find out more about the faith.
My question for anyone is this: Does the Catholic church have any modern day missionary efforts which strive to reach the nearly 2.7 billion unreached people groups with the message of Christ’s atoning sacrifice?
I would be very curious in this answer before I begin any further deep investigation into the church.
God Bless -
Sawye
My first thought was…“Well GEE! What are we? Chopped Liver?” There are TONS of Catholic evangelistic groups,and CAF here is probably the training ground for an ever growing army of us grass roots Catholics who are sharing our faith.