I agree with what Carol Marie wrote—good advice. I would also ask her this: since most of the churches that she might go to weren’t around for most of the two thousand years following Christ’s life on earth, were the early Christians, those who actually had the Apostles with them, less fortunate and further away from truth than a person today, who would need a great deal of time (and a reliable car) to travel to find all those forms of “truth”? If she misses a particular denomination (say, there’s no church of a particular denomination in her state), does it then follow that her truth is incomplete? If she wants the whole truth, shouldn’t she be on the road in a constant and never-ending search to gather up all of the pieces of truth that she would need? What if some pieces of “truth” contradict other pieces—can it still be truth? Whew…searching for truth that way sounds exhausting (and expensive, given the cost of gas). Thank heavens (literally) I don’t have to do that anymore.
Another thing to point out: going about Truth the way she suggests almost guarantees that she will tailor her faith to fit her preferences. But truth isn’t like that, and when religion becomes a relativistic, do-your-own-thing, feel good thing, instead of what it ought to be (one’s assent to objective truth), then religion loses it’s ability to challenge us—she will construct her own religion.
