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I'm feeling drawn to my old Church, the Church I grew up in. I visited last Sunday and I already feel moving to that Church is the way to go. I don't know if I'm just being rash and rushing, or if the Holy Spirit is calling me to do this, or if it's just in the best interest of my family to do this.
The important question is whether or not the particular church or denomination is helping to strengthen your relationship with Christ and feed the spiritual needs of you and your family. You are right that no denomination has a monopoly on "the truth" even though there are denominations out there that will insist that theirs is the only right way, when the reality is that it is *Christ* who is the way, the truth, and the life. If people from any particular denomination have to guilt or use fear, or building themselves up by putting others down, as a strategy to "encourage" you to remain, then what sort of message is that sending? God is not so small as many people can make him out to be.
How about attending your old church for a month or two, and if you feel that you should change, talk it over with the elders of that church and the priests of your current church.
I hope you return to the Baptist church, friend, it may be the Holy Spirit drawing you.
How about attending your old church for a month or two, and if you feel that you should change, talk it over with the elders of that church and the priests of your current church.
I hope you return to the Baptist church, friend, it may be the Holy Spirit drawing you.
Feel free to recommend your denomination all you want.
I want to do this. I don't want to leave Presbytera high and dry with no one to teach Sunday School though, I'd feel a little bad about that. I feel like I made somewhat of a commitment and I should see it through until the end of the Sunday School year (ends in May). OTOH, I never signed up for this commitment level. I signed up to occasionally help out. I feel a little taken advantage of with the current arrangement.
I do apologize for insinuating that your faith isn't the faith of Christ because of its relative newness in history. It wasn't appropriate here.I can recommend my own without taking swipes at someone else's.
Of course you can. But many of us are converts from the Church she is considering re-joining and have personal reasons for thinking it is not a great idea. Are we not allowed to voice these opinions friend?I can recommend my own without taking swipes at someone else's.
This is not so much a counter to your point as much as advice to the OP in her struggle:
I have found that when the Holy Spirit is recommending something you 100% know it is the Holy Spirit. Every time there has been an Order from God in my life it has been clear enough for me to drop everything and move towards it.
Emotion is not like the Holy Spirit. Emotion is cloudy, confusing, and shifts a lot. Usually if there is confusion and lack of peace, (unless it is conviction, and even then it is clear) then it is emotion drawing you towards something and not the spirit.
Thats just my personal experience however.
Was this done somewhere? Are you arguing that there are no churches with spiritual deficiencies?
How do I know you speak the truth? Do you have a monopoly on it?
Of course you can. But many of us are converts from the Church she is considering re-joining and have personal reasons for thinking it is not a great idea. Are we not allowed to voice these opinions friend?
I definitely need to pray about this, but this is important to me. I don't feel like my relationship with Christ is particularly strengthened where I am at. I felt so encouraged and strengthened in one week of Baptist church than I have in months where I'm at. I don't know if it's the "different", or if there truly is a difference.
Of course you can. But many of us are converts from the Church she is considering re-joining and have personal reasons for thinking it is not a great idea. Are we not allowed to voice these opinions friend?
I do apologize for insinuating that your faith isn't the faith of Christ because of its relative newness in history. It wasn't appropriate here.
Hi, ms.smith.I feel like I must be doing something wrong to change so much.
I was raised Baptist. Big church, in church often. Sunday morning, afternoon and evening (sometimes after church events), Wednesday evenings too. I drifted away in later high school when I started driving myself. I spent my college years not in church and "trying out" a few other religions.
Towards the end of my college years I decided Catholicism was it. Went through RCIA and attended Catholic church for several years. My oldest two children were baptized Catholic. After the birth of my third, I discovered Orthodoxy and I've been attending Orthodox services for 18 months. I have met with the priest about becoming Orthodox about 9 months in, but have made no further moves on officially joining the Orthodox church. I do volunteer in Sunday School and have found myself teaching Sunday school about 1/3 of Sundays for PK-K students. I'm not entirely comfortable teaching Sunday school while not being an actual Orthodox Christian, but there was a need and I was willing to help. PK and K is mostly just crafts and coloring.
If you have made it this far, I've come to the heart of my issue. I'm feeling drawn to my old Church, the Church I grew up in. I visited last Sunday and I already feel moving to that Church is the way to go. I don't know if I'm just being rash and rushing, or if the Holy Spirit is calling me to do this, or if it's just in the best interest of my family to do this.
I just needed to let this out somewhere. I don't see my therapist again for a couple of weeks and getting things out usually helps me move through it. I'd appreciate any feedback or if anyone wants to talk through it with me. Thanks.
The only thing that absolutely needs to remain constant in your life ... is your relationship with God.That is why I'm trying to work this out. I feel like I've made bad decisions in the past, maybe this is a bad decision again. Maybe it's all bad decisions.
So what did you see in being Catholic that led you to join them? And what is it that dissatisfied you there that led you to investigate Orthodox churches? I think you have already covered in the rest of this thread your issues with Orthodoxy and why you are looking back to being Baptist. But you were Catholic for multiple years. What happened there?I feel like I must be doing something wrong to change so much.
I was raised Baptist. Big church, in church often. Sunday morning, afternoon and evening (sometimes after church events), Wednesday evenings too. I drifted away in later high school when I started driving myself. I spent my college years not in church and "trying out" a few other religions.
Towards the end of my college years I decided Catholicism was it. Went through RCIA and attended Catholic church for several years. My oldest two children were baptized Catholic. After the birth of my third, I discovered Orthodoxy and I've been attending Orthodox services for 18 months. I have met with the priest about becoming Orthodox about 9 months in, but have made no further moves on officially joining the Orthodox church. I do volunteer in Sunday School and have found myself teaching Sunday school about 1/3 of Sundays for PK-K students. I'm not entirely comfortable teaching Sunday school while not being an actual Orthodox Christian, but there was a need and I was willing to help. PK and K is mostly just crafts and coloring.
If you have made it this far, I've come to the heart of my issue. I'm feeling drawn to my old Church, the Church I grew up in. I visited last Sunday and I already feel moving to that Church is the way to go. I don't know if I'm just being rash and rushing, or if the Holy Spirit is calling me to do this, or if it's just in the best interest of my family to do this.
I just needed to let this out somewhere. I don't see my therapist again for a couple of weeks and getting things out usually helps me move through it. I'd appreciate any feedback or if anyone wants to talk through it with me. Thanks.
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