Background before Orthodox

[Not David]

What's your background before becoming Orthodox?

How many cradle Orthodox are here?

I only know @Yeshua HaDerekh and @buzuxi02

Are you cradle @JohnTh ?

 

[Phronema]

I am a convert, and previously I was Presbyterian.

 

[All4Christ]

Pentecostal for first 22 years of my life - though in college I started to search and learned more about Orthodoxy. I started attending an Orthodox Bible Study during college but I didn’t start going to Orthodox services regularly until a year or so after I graduated.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Episcopalian turned heathen turned evangelical turned Orthodox

 

[Jude1:3Contendforthefaith]

• Baptist as a kid / teenager and going to a Baptist Church Camp during the summers while I was in High School.

• Assemblies of God for about 2 years after a semester of college.

• Calvary Chapel / Evangelical / Non Denominational / here and there for years and years and even stopped going to Church all together for a couple of years but I still listened to the Bible and prayed etc.



Now Orthodox, Thank God.



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[“Paisios”]

What's your background before becoming Orthodox?

How many cradle Orthodox are here?

I only know @Yeshua HaDerekh and @buzuxi02

Are you cradle @JohnTh ?

I grew up in the United Church of Canada (a union of the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists in 1928), became Buddhist for a short time just after college, then joined the Anglican Church of Canada, married a Roman Catholic woman (in a Catholic service with Roman Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian clergy jointly participating), moved to the USA and eventually became a member of the Charismatic Episcopal Church (not associated with the Anglican communion), and now have come home to Orthodoxy.

 

[Not David]

Pentecostal for first 22 years of my life - though in college I started to search and learned more about Orthodoxy. I started attending an Orthodox Bible Study during college but I didn’t start going to Orthodox services regularly until a year or so after I graduated.

Interesting, I started attending an Orthodox Church at college too.

 

[Not David]

Episcopalian turned heathen turned evangelical turned Orthodox

How did you go from Episcopalian to Heathen?

 

[Not David]

I grew up in the United Church of Canada (a union of the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists in 1928), became Buddhist for a short time just after college, then joined the Anglican Church of Canada, married a Roman Catholic woman (in a Catholic service with Roman Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian clergy jointly participating), moved to the USA and eventually became a member of the Charismatic Episcopal Church (not associated with the Anglican communion), and now have come home to Orthodoxy.

"Catholic service with Roman Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian clergy jointly participating together"

Is that allowed for Roman Catholics??

I think @charsan is part of the Charismatic Episcopal Church.

 

[“Paisios”]

"Catholic service with Roman Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian clergy jointly participating together"

Is that allowed for Roman Catholics??

I think @charsan is part of the Charismatic Episcopal Church.

The Roman Catholic priest was the only one serving the Mass (of which I did not partake, not being Catholic), but my Anglican priest and my father, the Presbyterian minister, did some of the readings and the homily. So yes, because they did not co-celebrate the Eucharist, it was (so I was told) acceptable to Rome.

And I believe you are right about @charsan ...I have met his bishop.

 

[Anhelyna]

Methodist -->Anglican --->Ukrainian Greko Catholic ---->Orthodox

 

[All4Christ]

Interesting, I started attending an Orthodox Church at college too.

I think I was searching even before then, but it was tough being the one person in my family to become Orthodox and not be in our family church. My family is very faithful and dedicated, and it was difficult to explain why I wanted to become Orthodox. It took time before I fully committed myself to become Orthodox - I even completed a year of catechism classes before agreeing to become a catechumen but I am very thankful that I was chrismated and am Orthodox.

 

[ArmyMatt]

How did you go from Episcopalian to Heathen?

college + alcohol + stupidity

 

[Not David]

I think I was searching even before then, but it was tough being the one person in my family to become Orthodox and not be in our family church. My family is very faithful and dedicated, and it was difficult to explain why I wanted to become Orthodox. It took time before I fully committed myself to become Orthodox - I even completed a year of catechism classes before agreeing to become a catechumen but I am very thankful that I was chrismated and am Orthodox.

I took History of Christianity but the reason I decided to go to an Orthodox Church was a little mundane.

I am the only one who is interested in Orthodoxy in my family (even in my native country) and I don't know when I will finish the catechism process. I might just call myself the eternal catechumen lol.

 

[Tigger45]

I took History of Christianity but the reason I decided to go to an Orthodox Church was a little mundane.

I am the only one who is interested in Orthodoxy in my family (even in my native country) and I don't know when I will finish the catechism process. I might just call myself the eternal catechumen lol.

"Eternal cathecumen" Lol I'm stealing that!

 

[Not David]

college + alcohol + stupidity

Ahh, I thought you were referring to the "New Age/neo-paganism" heathen.

 

[Not David]

"Eternal cathecumen" Lol I'm stealing that!

I will sue you for copyright

 

[Not David]

I will sue you for copyright

Jean Gray's gif shows it better.

 

[AMM]

Lutheran -> confessional/traditional Lutheran (same denomination, this was an internal change) -> found Orthodoxy in college (long backstory there)

 

[Not David]

Lutheran -> confessional/traditional Lutheran (same denomination, this was an internal change) -> found Orthodoxy in college (long backstory there)

It's nice knowing about Orthodoxy in college.