Conversion Stories

[Rhamiel]

what denomination were you before?
if you do not mind me asking

 

[VVGMom]

I don't mind at all... My parents brought me up mainly protestant - jumping from different church to church (we moved a lot). We went to baptist churches, assembly of god, presbyterian, christian alliance, etc. Some of my best friends in were Catholic and sometimes I would accompany them to mass. Since I've been on my own and now even married with my own children, I've tried other places, but always have come back to the Catholic Church. It's time for me to just stay, I believe.

 

[isshinwhat]

I don't mind at all... My parents brought me up mainly protestant - jumping from different church to church (we moved a lot). We went to baptist churches, assembly of god, presbyterian, christian alliance, etc. Some of my best friends in were Catholic and sometimes I would accompany them to mass. Since I've been on my own and now even married with my own children, I've tried other places, but always have come back to the Catholic Church. It's time for me to just stay, I believe.

 

[henrikhankhagnell]

Well, I am not Catholic yet but I am walking slowly
I think that the Franciscan spirituality was one of the reason why I came back to God. I think the monasteries/Convents are great help for non-catholics to become Catholics.

 

[Albania1]

well, part of my family has possibly been athiest [due to living in communist albania], but we all converted back to roman Catholicism or eastern orthodoxy. my dads side of the family however always maintained their religion and opposed the communists, although they were usually jailed for years...

 

[D'Ann]

well, part of my family has possibly been athiest [due to living in communist albania], but we all converted back to roman Catholicism or eastern orthodoxy. my dads side of the family however always maintained their religion and opposed the communists, although they were usually jailed for years...

May God's love and kindness and blessings be with you and your whole family.

I could see the struggle with having faith in an atheist... communist country... it must have been quite difficult for both sides of the family.

I don't know what to say...

Welcome to the OBOB.

God's peace,

Debbie

 

[Mountain King]

I'm starting RCIA in less than 3 weeks. I've been a Christian for a long time (conservative Anglican for the last 10 years), but the Holy Spirit won't let me stay away any longer! Church history, the testimony of Scripture and of the Saints, and a number of answers to prayer all testify that the Catholic Church is the place to be. I am looking forward to meeting you all and growing alongside some incredible people here!

 

[ojohn]

After studying long time history of church looking where modren church is going I decided to go back orginal church 2008 very happy about descion I find very deep full circle most bibilcal church I ever been in Anyway dont have time to go into everything but hope you find Peace and Joy of Lord in your life pay close attention to words of baptisimal commiment very strong Good Luck on your Journey

 

[mdd2299]

I joined the Church in 2004. My parents and I attended an independent Church of Christ when I was a child. Then as a teenager I briefly attended a United Methodist church and finally I was a very active member of a Church of Christ in Christian Union. It was in that church my journey to Catholicism began. They started allowing something that our family considered to be totally unbiblical. When I went to the pastor about it, he told me that what my parents and I believe is a Catholic and a Baptist belief. So, I started researching what different denominations taught and why. The evidence for the Catholic Church was just too overwhelming to ignore. Sadly, my parents bounced around from church to church until they settled on a Southern Baptist church. So, now our family is estranged so to speak when it comes to matters of faith.

 

[Rhamiel]

I joined the Church in 2004. My parents and I attended an independent Church of Christ when I was a child. Then as a teenager I briefly attended a United Methodist church and finally I was a very active member of a Church of Christ in Christian Union. It was in that church my journey to Catholicism began. They started allowing something that our family considered to be totally unbiblical. When I went to the pastor about it, he told me that what my parents and I believe is a Catholic and a Baptist belief. So, I started researching what different denominations taught and why. The evidence for the Catholic Church was just too overwhelming to ignore. Sadly, my parents bounced around from church to church until they settled on a Southern Baptist church. So, now our family is estranged so to speak when it comes to matters of faith.

hmm do you mind me asking what the unbiblical belief was that made you want to learn more about other denominations?

 

[mdd2299]

hmm do you mind me asking what the unbiblical belief was that made you want to learn more about other denominations?

The main belief that drove me away was the ordination of women. It started out as a couple women in the congregation being ordained as "evangelists" which meant that they couldn't be a pastor of a home church. However, since we left that church, the pastor has retired and one of the women ordained as an evangelist has now become the new pastor. Ironically, she was raised Catholic.

There were other little tidbits as well, such as one time the pastor said in a sermon that anyone that had a can of "Budweiser" in their refridgerator couldn't be "saved".

 

[ojohn]

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[ojohn]

Hang in there just dont let someone blast you away keep lookin always you find as much truth as bad about catholic church on inet I was told i lost my soul for converting ? Many nay sayers out there but trust GOD and spirit will lead you and comfort you .

 

[Loknar]

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[servant of Merciful Love]

Welcome to CF and OBOB
What an awesome testimony: thank you for sharing it!
When the Lord has His Hand on you, He won't let go
But we also have to be open and accepting; and that you surely were!
I will be praying for your spiritual journey; you will have a special place in my prayers at Easter Vigil this year
May God bless you in His Merciful Love

 

[Loknar]

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[S.ilvio]

Welcome Loknar...

 

[Rishad]

Good to see that there are people who see truth and righteousness in the original form of Christianity

 

[Abrahamist]

I'm a convert to Catholicism and will be confirmed this Easter.

I was raised as a Protestant in a 'rock concert' Megachurch and was taught to believe that God communicated directly to the individual through the Bible. I had also been lead to believe that the Catholic Church was established and paganized by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century.

Over time, I became disgusted with my church's practice and grew to see the whole things as being phony and so deconverted.

I was an atheist for a while and then I started studying Buddhism.

A few years later, I started reading the Old Testament again but instead of reading it the way I was taught as a protestant, I read it more like I had been taught to read the eastern texts and over time I realized that the God of the Old Testament was the real God of the universe.

This lead me to believe that the Bible really was the inspired word of God after all, but that not all interpretations of it are divinely inspired.

From studying both Jewish history and the history of the early church, it became overwhelming clear that scripture was written, canonized and interpreted all by the guide and light of tradition. It also became overwhelmingly clear that all those practices that I once thought were pagan were actually held over from Judaism, that Constantine's pagan ideas about Jesus (or any other pagan practice from that time) never found their way into church teaching and that the early church could not have even survived had it not been unified (or catholic).

I am so glad to have finally found the real thing.

But at the same time, it's kind of bittersweet. I wish I had found Catholicism much earlier in life but I didn't even know to look. I was cheated out of the real thing for a long time because I was given a fake that used the same name as the real thing. And so when I finally went looking for the real thing, I didn't know what to look for because I had already been lead to believe the real thing was a fake.

 

[Michie]

I'm a convert to Catholicism and will be confirmed this Easter.

I was raised as a Protestant in a 'rock concert' Megachurch and was taught to believe that God communicated directly to the individual through the Bible. I had also been lead to believe that the Catholic Church was established and paganized by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century.

Over time, I became disgusted with my church's practice and grew to see the whole things as being phony and so deconverted.

I was an atheist for a while and then I started studying Buddhism.

A few years later, I started reading the Old Testament again but instead of reading it the way I was taught as a protestant, I read it more like I had been taught to read the eastern texts and over time I realized that the God of the Old Testament was the real God of the universe.

This lead me to believe that the Bible really was the inspired word of God after all, but that not all interpretations of it are divinely inspired.

From studying both Jewish history and the history of the early church, it became overwhelming clear that scripture was written, canonized and interpreted all by the guide and light of tradition. It also became overwhelmingly clear that all those practices that I once thought were pagan were actually held over from Judaism, that Constantine's pagan ideas about Jesus (or any other pagan practice from that time) never found their way into church teaching and that the early church could not have even survived had it not been unified (or catholic).

I am so glad to have finally found the real thing.

But at the same time, it's kind of bittersweet. I wish I had found Catholicism much earlier in life but I didn't even know to look. I was cheated out of the real thing for a long time because I was given a fake that used the same name as the real thing. And so when I finally went looking for the real thing, I didn't know what to look for because I had already been lead to believe the real thing was a fake.

Welcome home.