If we love our Catholic friends, we must tell them that the Jesus of the Bible is not the same Jesus of the Roman Catholic church. This video shows the differences clearly. I’m of the opinion that all Catholics and Protestants should know this information.
I would like to thank Tom of excatholic4christ for sharing this important video.
God Bless you,
Chris Reimers
Wings of the Wind
Est. September, 2009 – ReEst. April, 2010
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Thanks for the reblog and the kind words, Chris! Yes, ecumenical accommodation is of no help to Roman Catholics who need to hear the genuine Gospel of grace.
You’re welcome, Tom. I’m going to rewatch this again every couple of months or so because there is so much here that I need to have in my memory. I know Mike has been trying to help Catholics for years so he was very organized in this presentation. I’ve recently seen more than one news item about how younger people going to catholic churches. Some of them grew up in the RCC and some of them are unchurched. That is concerning. I hope this video gets out to many. Thank you again for sharing! 🙂 I look forward to the rest of the series.
Thanks, Chris!
RE: young people attracted to the RCC
I’m seeing some momentum building among young people who are attracted to the antiquity, ritualism, and ceremony of the RCC in contrast with the uncertainties and shallowness of the today’s culture. They’re trading in one house built upon sand for another. Evangelical pastors add to this problem by 1) promoting a very shallow type of church service, i.e., cotton candy Jesus entertainment, 2) never or rarely referencing church history and the Reformation, and 3) embracing the RCC as a Gospel-preaching institution.
You’re welcome, Tom, and I agree with you 100%. So many protestants are as lost as so many Catholics are. It is a tragic situation.
The reverence in Catholicism is something I tend to appreciate after far too much “church-tainment” in the evangelical world in recent years. However, it saddens me that for our Catholic friends they always see Jesus on the Cross, whereas I grew up viewing and greatly reverencing the empty Cross in our church as a sign of our Lord’s forever glorious redemption and resurrection. Thanks so much for this video.
You’re welcome, LightWriter. Thank you for your comment.
In the past 15 years I have written more posts on this blog than I would like about the crazy things going on in protestant churches. Having grown up in a protestant church, I have seen the steady decline of Biblical knowledge among the main line and even the “non-denominational” protestants. The term “Evangelical” has lost much of it’s meaning for me. You have churches like the “Evangelical Lutheran Church in America” which uses the term and has a very low view of Biblical authority.
Many of the churches that have offered “church-tainment” are either gone or are losing membership in droves. There are exceptions, of course. That type of church will not last. The false teachers and false prophets that continue to plague Protestantism are, indeed, grievous.
It is possible that some of the ungodliness in many of the protestant churches has driven people to a Catholic setting that seems more reverent.
I must admit that it is getting harder to find churches that teach the gospel message that is taught in scripture. If we can’t find a church that teaches the same gospel message taught by Paul and the disciples, then we need to start churches like the ones that they met in. Early Christians met in homes or anywhere where they could fellowship with those who believed like they did.
Sending people back to the Catholic church is as bad as sending them into protestant churches with teachers that lead people astray. I can and have spoken about wayward protestants because that’s where I came from. We should be ready to show Catholics and protestants alike when they fall short of basic Biblical teachings. The Roman Catholic church is still teaching the same errant teachings that prompted the great Reformation that led to so many places that did teach the truths found in scripture. As I can’t ignore that so many protestants are leaving the Solas of that Reformation, I can’t ignore the things that Mike Gendron speaks about in this video. He came out of the Catholic church and, as he clearly articulates, for very good reasons.
The empty cross that you grew up viewing and greatly reverencing in your church was, as you have stated, a sign of our Lord’s forever glorious redemption and resurrection. The empty cross means “It is finished.”
Thank you again for your comment, LightWriter and God’s blessings…
I wandered looking for a church for years, having been saved by God’s grace and rescued out of dead Protestant environs. I ended up in a small outreach ministry writing Christian testimonies for a grassroots Gospel outreach that worked to get the Gospel into neighborhoods and to do neighborhood prayer drives. That is what became my “church”. I continue to pray for many in churches to awaken as the early church did to the Holy Spirit’s power and God’s call to go into all the world and to be the “living testaments” God desires is to be. I pray many will seek the Lord while He may be found, and that many more people including in “sleeping” churches will seek for and find His Way, Truth and Life. God’s grace and blessings on you also and on all your faithful writings and work for Him. 🕊️
Thank you for sharing and for your kind words, Lightwriter. I understand all about being rescued from dead Protestant environs. Thankfully, you found a place where you could serve. So many wander aimlessly for years.
After I left a “ministry” because of problems, I continued to read God’s Word, and I ended up working in a secular place and started a family. In the few jobs that I had, I was never asked to make compromises because of my faith which is what I would have had to do if I had stayed in the “ministry” I was in. I may have had to give up on a place but, by the grace of God, He never gave up on me. I was always able to find a place to worship.
Your prayer is one that is greatly needed today. When polls tell us that only 4 to 6% of Americans hold to a Biblical worldview, many in churches must be “asleep” as you stated. God is waiting, with open arms for those who will follow the way, the truth, and the life.
May God bless your work for Him as well.
“I’m of the opinion that all Catholics and Protestants should know this information.”
That’s an excellent opinion, Chris. I was thinking earlier today that Catholics believe in a Jesus, but it’s “another Jesus” not the Jesus of the Scriptures. It’s like night and day.
Thank you, Cathy. You are another who has come out of the Catholic church so you would know much better than I. It is like night and day and it seems that fewer and fewer people know the difference. That’s why materials like this are so good.
I was a youth director way back in the day and I took the youth group to a Catholic church so that they could see a mass. There were only about 15 of us but I still called ahead and talked to the priest to make sure it was okay. He was welcoming. We went and later that night, after a youth activity, discussed the differences in theology. I didn’t know as much then as I do now but I thought it was important for them to know main differences. We also covered other groups who believe differently. I remember specifically discussing the Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Islam with them. I’m pretty sure we discussed some Eastern religions as well.
In any case, I think youth directors should be discussing things like this in our time not only to help the youth find out what others believe but to find out what the Bible teaches. As adults seem less likely to have a Biblical worldview these days, they need to know the differences as well.
I appreciate your comment! 😊
I apppreciate TOm on WP!
Me too, Pastor Jim! 😊
Grateful for you too Chris!
Thank you, Pastor Jim. I am grateful for you as well! 😊
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Interesting, but a strange tendency to exacerbate our differences rather than value everything that unites us (Jean 17/21)
It’s as if you’re looking for competition, or even, in some comments, contempt.Fortunately, theologians are working on this as well.
I invite you to read that
https://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/fr/dialoghi/sezione-occidentale/luterani/dialogo/documenti-di-dialogo/1999-dichiarazione-congiunta-sulla-dottrina-della-giustificazion/1999-dichiarazione-congiunta-sulla-dottrina-della-giustificazion/en1.html
My comments have nothing to do with competition. This post is here because of what I believe. I don’t understand why anyone would be surprised at theological differences between Catholics and Protestants. They have existed since the Reformation when the differences, like the huge differences mentioned by Mike Gendron in this video, became important. After watching the video, I don’t see how anyone would expect a serious protestant to want to join with Catholics in worship. If you look through my blog, I am just as critical of false teachers and false prophets in the protestant churches. In fact, I have many more posts that are critical of protestants. At the same time, I cannot ignore the things mentioned in the video by Mike Gendron. It is 40 minutes long and if you watch it you will see why I posted it. There is a time where real conversation is needed among both Catholics and Protestants because so many who claim to be either don’t know what the basics of their church believes. I am familiar with attempts like the JOINT DECLARATION that you have posted. Both Catholics and protestants can talk about common ground, which there is a good deal of particularly on social issues like abortion, same sex marriage among others, but theologians on both sides that hold to orthodox views will not give an inch on doctrine. I don’t see that changing anytime soon and I think that both sides should state their cases and let the people decide what to believe. I am not afraid to let it be known that I believe the same differences that existed during the Reformation still exist today. I think those differences are irreconcilable and I think they should be discussed rather than ignored.
Thank you for your comment.
God’s blessings…