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I wanted to share this thought on Protestantism:

I no longer subscribe the concept of protest, which leads not only to a broken church family, but to broken families. You don’t like something, you’re outta here. The divorce rate among Protestants is the same as the divorce rate of the general population. Children feel free to abandon their families. What I’m seeing is that the Protestant ethic permeates our stance toward all the gifts God has given us in the inherited legacy of our church family. -Barbara at MommyLife.Net

She is being told to read more Martin Luther, in hopes it will help her overcome her “problem” of feeling called to the Catholic Church.

Want to read more? The adventure continues here.

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  1. A Simple Sinner Says:
    December 3, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    I encourage her to read all of the Reformers!

    Martin Bucer
    Heinrich Bullinger
    John Calvin
    Andreas von Carlstadt, later a Radical Reformer
    Wolfgang Fabricius Capito
    Martin Chemnitz
    Thomas Cranmer
    William Farel
    Matthias Flacius
    Caspar Hedio
    Justus Jonas
    John Knox
    Jan Łaski
    Martin Luther
    Philipp Melanchthon
    Johannes Oecolampadius
    Peter Martyr
    Joachim Vadian
    Laurentius Petri
    Olaus Petri
    Pierre Viret
    Huldrych Zwingli
    Aonio Paleario

    Start reading through them all and start to ask yourself, why are they not in greater agreement?

    What trajectory took Protestantism from Lutheran and Calvinistic liturgical bodies to the evangelical/pentecostal mega-churches we have today?

    Why were they not united? In turn, why did their spiritual heirs further divide?

    Honestly, I am all for her reading more Luther, and then asking, how did that work out, how united are Lutherans in their understandings today?

    Read up on your reformers, read up on their reforms, and then look and see what became of Rome…

    Huldrych Zwingli (S, 1484-1531)
    William Tyndale (E, 1494-1536)
    Menno Simmons (N, ((1496–1561))
    Martin Luther (G, 1483–1546)
    Thomas Müntzer (G, 1489-1525)
    John Calvin (S, 1509–1564)
    Thomas Cranmer (E, 1489–1556)
    John Knox (Sc, 1514?–1572)
    John Wesley (E, 1703–1791)

    Than I suggest she starts to challenge the popular mythos of the reformation… And the popular myths about reformation era Catholicism.

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