Confused Young Man

[jwilliams190800]

@jwilliams190800

I was wondering if you've had a chance to check out The Evangelical Lutheran Church of England (ELCE)?

I did have a quick look, the closest congregation to me is a drive of about 2.5 hours away

 

[jwilliams190800]

You are very welcome!

Also, if you go to the "Teachings" link under "Resources" you can hear online sermons that cover the entire bible.

I'll post the link here: https://calvarychapel.com/resources/teachings/

Cool, thanks for the link

 

[John Davidson]

I did have a quick look, the closest congregation to me is a drive of about 2.5 hours away

That's too bad....is there a Calvary Chapel in your area?

Here is their church locator:

https://calvarychapel.com/church-locator/

http://calvarychapelassociation.com/churches/

 

[jwilliams190800]

That's too bad....is there a Calvary Chapel in your area?

Here is their church locator:

https://calvarychapel.com/church-locator/

http://calvarychapelassociation.com/churches/

It's much closer than the ELCE church, but still relatively far away, it would depend largely on traffic on how fast I could get there; there aren't any motorways to use

 

[NJA]

But there can be no harm in it

So long as you do what God is telling you to do. Otherwise you fall into the same error of the Jews that Strephen spoke to in Acts 7 ... he rehearsed how they and their forefathers claimed faith in God but always resisted what God was doing in their generation.

 

[Light of the East]

Well, the question is really this: do you want to worship as closely as possible as how the Apostles worshiped or do you want to follow something some man made up 16 centuries later? Do you want to believe what the Apostles taught their disciples, that which was faithfully handed down from generation to generation by those who died rather than compromise the faith once given to the Apostles, or do you want to follow some disciple of a man who left the ancient faith in the 16th century?

Do you believe the promise of Christ that the gates of hell would not prevail against the Church? If so, then there is still the Church which holds fast to that which was taught from the beginning.

Everyone who says you should read the Bible to help in your decision is forgetting one thing: everyone in every denomination, both here in this forum as well as in the world, will say that the Bible supports their belief system. So what that means is that it comes down to interpretation, doesn't it?

Therefore, since it is a matter of interpretation, then you should wish to know how the very first pastors of the Christian faith interpreted the Bible, right?

So my first suggestion to you would be to get the small, three-volume set of Jurgen's Faith of the Early Fathers

Follow that up with study online by Googling the various Early Fathers you will find in the quotes in the book and read their works. A little more tedious, but it will give you a good handle on what doctrines go all the way back to the beginning and which were made up by men.