A good Mennonite friend of mine
from Buhler, Kansas, posted the attached video onto her Facebook™
Timeline. The video is produced by Matt Slick of CARM ministries and is called Are Roman Catholics Saved?
Obviously, I have
disclosed that I fellowship with a Roman Catholic group on Saturday evenings
when in Chicago (no – I am Mennonite, not Catholic). I fellowship with them because I enjoy the
method by which they delve into the scripture readings for the service and
because I have found within the Roman Catholic church a continued, obstinate
dedication to old Mennonite values such as Communitarianism, Pacifism, Social
Outreach, personalism in one’s relationship to Christ, and Grace – especially
amongst the orders (Franciscans, Jesuits, Vincentians and the Poor Claire’s).
Having similarly attended numerous Baptist-oriented services, I have
found myself all too often discouraged that while the evangelical Mennonites
and certain “Baptist” groups share a commitment to Biblicism and the
Evangelical message, that I have left too many of those services feeling that
the fruits from that service were negative, judgmental and counter-productive –
or just as often, having experienced what I often refer to as Evangelical-lite –
meaning that I experienced Truth but was leaving the service still spiritually
hungry. I have found certain Roman
Catholic services (or Evangelical Free Services) to be a better mix for my own
personal spiritual “character.” So I am
a bit ecumenical by nature.
