Quote:
Originally Posted by awareness
I suppose that since I was indoctrinated as a Southern Baptist from diapers, I let a little sarcasm leak out from time to time. Please don't take it personal.
I confess I'm very curious as to how someone can leave the local church and take on the Lutheran faith. Not that I have anything against Lutherans. All that I've met and talked to seemed to be good people, trying to live a good Christian life.
I just think that it is likely that there was a lot of cognitive dissonance in the process of going from Nee/Lee to Luther. And am curious of how that journey went, and if it relates to my journey, after the local church, in any way.
Was it a "going back?" As in going back to your cradle religion? That might help me understand.
I'm just trying to figure you out bro Arthur. Sorry if I've got you wondering if I.'m just pulling your leg.
See my post on your Testimony Thread.
|
Well...cognitive dissonance is a good way to put it. When I left the LC I spent another year and a half in Cleveland and lived part of that time in an old church near the zoo. I don't know how to describe the work being done there. Warren Campbell an assembly of God pastor was the director. He also served a Covenant church on the west side and I attended there. It was a period of great confusion to say the least. I then moved to Mansfield ohio and became part of Grace Haven farm which became Grace Church Ray Nethery was the main teacher. He was part of the New Covenant Apostolic Order it was a teaching ministry and I studied and soaked up much of contemporary evangelicalism going back and forth with the charismatic thing which was very big at the time. Kevin Springer was asked to go to Ann Arbor Michigan to start a house church associated with Grace Haven. He asked me and several others to go with him. In Ann arbor I began attending Concordia College, a college of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. After much study I decided that Lutheran Confessuons were on target being both catholic and evangelical. I joined a local lcms church, went off to seminary and the rest is history. Of course this cannot plumb the depths of all the struggle with understanding the Sacraments, etc. I hope this helps. If you want to discuss it further, ask some specific question and I will attempt an answer.
The older I get, the less I know for sure but the little I do know I am more sure of than ever. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable grace and mercy to me a sinner!