Hope you didn't take my thread as "drinking is bad and is a sin". It's not. But to indulge heavily in drinking can lead to other behavior that IS sin.
Playing off Lent thread, what religion are you?
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I am Catholic, so I am non-denominational also.
When you find a Catholic in the Bible, I think only then can you call yourself non-denominational, correct?
Actually she didn't have to beg Him to do it. She only stated to Him that they have no more wine. He took it from there. There's a lesson in this somewhere.
Man, I’m not getting into an argument over this. If you don’t think so, we can agree to disagree.
I made a tongue in cheek comment (that happens to be true, but most don’t realize). Nothing more.
This is church for me. Nothing better than being on the beach on Sunday with JB and WSP on my speaker. 
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Catholic. Grew up Methodist & Baptist. My mother is a Methodist minister who went to reformed prezy seminary. I moved 11x by 8th grade so I went to a bunch of churches so I’m not tied to a specific church or denomination as so many are that grew up in 1 church. The older I get and the more I’ve studied church history & tradition and my beliefs have went a direction. I don’t think anyone enjoys denomination in-fighting more than the devil.
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I know exactly what you thought when you posted this lol.
But allow me to answer buddy on your behalf. Mass is structured & follows a 3-year cycle. We don’t get 8-week series from the preacher man coming from a book he read called choking out the devil. There are 3 readings every mass: Old Testament, New Testament, & gospel followed by a responsorial psalm. We quite literally read the entire bible, out loud, every 3 years. Hope this helps
I think the Bible is clear. Drinking isn’t a sin. But being a drunk is.
Since more than half of the Baptist votes are probably “Reformed” Baptists- Calvinist God wins first place on sixpack, then spends eternity saying, “I could’ve saved you all, but I wanted to show off My glory by torturing most of you forever. You’re welcome.”
Priest having no wife, family, businesses, or money where their entire function is selfless service to their flock is as pure an idea as you can get but makes recruiting brutality hard. Ain’t no half-steppers. I saw pastor Marc Driscoll say on a video he could never be a catholic priest because he didn’t want to die a broke virgin
Baptist first 27 years. Catholic last 28.
To me that gives more credence to it. More sacrifice for being a leader.
The Catholic Church turned mandatory celibacy into a recruitment filter that has disproportionately attracted men who were already running from normal adult relations. Combine that with a created system where marriage and family are forbidden, and you don’t get more holiness- you get a higher concentration of guys in a system that has produced one of the worst institutional child sex abuse cover up scandals in human history. That’s a structural disaster that has turned “selfless service” into a predator’s perfect cover.
Not true at all. Catholics encourage families.
Why do you take 2 Baptist when you go fishing? Cause if you just took one they’d drink all your beer.
Jews don’t recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
Protestants don’t recognize the pope as the head of the church.
Bapstists don’t recognize each other in the liquor store.
He means the word Catholic is not in the Bible. It’s not. They called each other Christians by name- one that believed in Christ. But of course, you’d have to understand the structure of the church back then and how spread out it was, which most of us in the year 2026 don’t have a great concept of. Early church fathers first referred to Catholicism, and used it like it was a term commonly known amongst Christians when referring to the community, or church, as a whole. These are people that knew Jesus and/or his anpostles and lived during the days of the early church.
And if you read early church fathers (good collection on Amazon) and look at how they described the church going back to apostolic times- yeah, you’ll recognize it as the Catholic church.
Anyways- I’m not here to argue about it. If you don’t believe it, it’ll be ok.
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Catholics love encouraging families- right up until you want to become a priest.
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
I am in the construction industry, I had to do research for a project at work (proposal for a church). The Catholic Church, PCS (conservative Presbyterian wing), traditional baptist churches that stay out of politics, and orthodox are starting to really grow. We have had every type of those churches reach out about adding more space. I think it is interesting those are the branches growing.
Oh my bad. I thought he meant Catholics aren’t in the bible as in reading it.
I was raised southern Baptist. It was a church that had you there Sunday twice, Wednesday nights, and every event. Drinking was the devils drink etc, but my parents raised me to question everything. They didn’t want be to believe in Jesus because of them. So, I ran for a while and ended up finding Christ at State. Allen Hall on campus. I considering Catholicism and Presbyterian, but ended up Baptist because I don’t believe in Infant Baptism mostly. My church leans reformed, and is cool with drinking. We just preach Jesus. We are not an average baptist church and I think it is why we are growing.
Young men especially for the Catholic church— it was some insane number I saw, well over 100%.
Many are going to churches that have the traditional Latin mass. A lot of people these days seem to be craving the order and structure the church provides— what I’ve read, not my theory. They are particularly drawn to the traditions.
I love to see it. I have noticed our church has been more crowded this year and we have a decent number of people converting in this OCIA class- several with young families. I’ve also noted women starting to veil and more taking the Eucharist by mouth.
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Attendance in our (Presbyterian) church is up almost 20% in the last 3 years. Its very encouraging. We are running out of room. Not only has Church attendance gone up we have had to add Sunday School classes and every class room is nearly full every week. Hoping this is a trend everywhere.
The only Protestant denomination that has grown in the last 2 years is the conservative branch of Presbyterians. I could find where I read that but I’m too lazy.
Not sure what your post has to do with the thread.
- you definitely aren't chatting with a bunch of 'radical progressives' often enough or long enough to naturally get to a point in a conversation where that question would be asked.
- your observation that a radical leaning person is dumbfounded because they are asked a random question makes sense. Radical leaning people seem to often be less than level headed, unreasonable, and uninformed.
Baptized Catholic.
Raised Catholic then Episcopal.
Not religious as an adult, but support my kids thru discussing religion and attending service with them when they want to go.
Raised Catholic then Episcopal.
Not religious as an adult, but support my kids thru discussing religion and attending service with them when they want to go.
I’ve said it before but being on the spectrum I’m prone to be very logical…
I struggle when it comes to comprehending the concept of faith.
Ignorant churchgoers often told me that I can’t be logical and had to have faith.
They also disregarded my questions which stemmed from logic…
So I don’t consider myself welcome
I struggle when it comes to comprehending the concept of faith.
Ignorant churchgoers often told me that I can’t be logical and had to have faith.
They also disregarded my questions which stemmed from logic…
So I don’t consider myself welcome
Hey brother, since you posted this I'm assuming you are referring to converting to another denomination. I'm glad God is calling you. I'd advise you to look online at the local churches in your area you may be interested in, read their belief statements, and read the Bible to see which lines up the best. Look at some you aren't interested in as well. I find that I care less about the denomination and more about the preacher. I go to church with my family, but my time with God is throughout every day. I often get bored at church because I'm not a fan of the modern songs and the same sermons over and over. We live in a spiritual world full of darkness that we have to battle against and most preachers won't even address it.
I both can see that and hate that. I’m sorry. If you’re open to it, I would find a few Bible scholars and read their books.
The Hallow app is Catholic, but Jeff Cavins is great with that kind of stuff. He also has a podcast. I’m a big Father Mike Schmitz fan, but I think Cavins would appeal more to your logical side.
I think logic and faith can go hand in hand. Some of the greatest scientists in history were monks- hell, some became saints. You need someone that can speak on your wavelength.
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll look up Cavins.
By the way, a good friend who is also Catholic told me years ago that the best case scenario for me was to have attended a Jesuit-run school when I was high school age.
He concluded that I would either be a committed Catholic or an Agnostic.
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