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For a protestant it’s bit trickier because all of the congregations don’t call themselves the same thing, nor preach the same thing. I know, it’s one of the reasons y’all don’t think protestants are correct, but there you have it.
But the gospel they are seeking is the gospel according to them…and they got it, without realizing it…from someone who came from the Protestant Reformation.
Instead, they are trying to find the closest thing to a Bible believing and preaching church they can, they “just” don’t find it in the RCC, or else they’d be Catholic.
Yes…a Bible believing and preaching church…according to their interpretation of the Bible…that they agree with.
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The “Catholic Problem”…
I believed, as most Evangelicals do, that my own brand of Christianity was the most “authentic,” i.e. the closest to the New Testament beliefs and practice - the most “biblical.” …I thought about this choose-your-own-church syndrome constantly. While all of us missionaries from these various denominations proclaimed the purity of our gospel, the truth was, there was no way for any of us to know for sure which of us had it “most right.”
And finally, the Protestant notion of sola scriptura (the Bible alone) fell apart each time I tried to test it. I began to see that Evangelicalism’s insistence on going by the Bible alone led continually into division and problems. Worse yet, claiming to go by the Bible alone didn’t really provide any certitude of belief for believers.
With all the competing voices, how was one to know who was right? What mere man could stand up with a clear conscience before a group of illiterate people and say, “This is what the Bible means?” The sheer arrogance of what was going on made it difficult for me to listen to sermons after a while. All of them were “preaching the gospel.” But whose gospel? I wondered. Around that time, a more fundamental question loomed: What is the gospel?
The most astonishing discovery came when it dawned on me through long hours of reading and studying Scripture and conservative Evangelical commentaries on biblical sufficiency that Scripture doesn’t even teach that it alone is sufficient for knowing all Truth about the Faith. Protestants presuppose sola scriptura, without giving the slightest thought to the possibility that the “Bible alone” is an incorrect view
They could be wrong or right, just as the Catholic who decided to join the RCC.
How could they know if they are right?
Continuing from the story above:
“Amen,” I said. “I believe it.” As I received Jesus sacramentally in Holy Communion for the first time, I thanked Him with all my heart for the miracle of grace He had worked in my life to unite me to Himself in this way, in a wonderful, mysterious way I could never have imagined possible. The day we landed in Guatemala City for the first time, I had hoped we were home. In reality, we were only en route to our real home, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
In the Catholic Church we have found the fullness of the Christian Faith. Not seventy-five percent of the Truth, not ninety percent, but all of it, one hundred percent. We have found real worship, shaped by and focused on Jesus Christ, not on this minister or that minister’s opinion about this or that passage of Scripture. We have embraced the Faith of our Fathers, the teachings which Christ intended us to have.
We found in our long, circuitous journey home to the Catholic Church that there is indeed only one Gospel, the Catholic Gospel. There is only one place where one can find the fullness of truth and the most personal of relationships with Jesus Christ - and it isn’t Protestantism. The last place we looked for truth was where the Truth had been all along. We are home to stay.
