Message from @Andrules

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2018-06-15 20:44:59 UTC  

I asked them questions about their faith

2018-06-15 20:45:07 UTC  

Gospel of John is a good account of Jesus' life and ministry. And of course Jesus is the center of Christianity obviously

2018-06-15 20:45:16 UTC  

And watched some like 8 min ytb videos

2018-06-15 20:45:24 UTC  

Summary of bible part by part

2018-06-15 20:45:35 UTC  

Romans is a good account of what the Church is

2018-06-15 20:46:06 UTC  

Proverbs is an old book by an ancient Israeli King, it's exactly what it sounds like. Proverbs and practical advice

2018-06-15 20:46:49 UTC  

1st Maccabees is like the Jewish version of the movie 300

2018-06-15 20:47:19 UTC  

@Deleted User What about the bible project series

2018-06-15 20:47:22 UTC  

Is it good?

2018-06-15 20:47:49 UTC  

Short videos on ytb

2018-06-15 20:48:22 UTC  

Yeah, it's kinda meant for kids but that makes it easy to understand

2018-06-15 20:49:35 UTC  

Yeah

2018-06-15 20:49:38 UTC  

I liked that

2018-06-15 20:50:06 UTC  

@Deleted User The fact it was simple and clear and easy to understand was great

2018-06-15 20:54:33 UTC  

Any particular denomination that draws you in or are you just exploring?

2018-06-15 20:55:40 UTC  

I grew up Protestant (Baptist) and converted to Roman Catholic in my adult life so I'm familiar with both

2018-06-15 21:04:00 UTC  

@Deleted User Any group in particular that would accept a very light ans casual believer? Or I'd just be atheist hack to you all?

2018-06-15 21:04:40 UTC  

I don't know how Protestants are in Europe but over here they're pretty strict. Some even believe alcohol is a sin

2018-06-15 21:05:07 UTC  

Catholics tend to be laid back, sometimes too much, so in some places we tend to get liberals and idiots

2018-06-15 21:05:20 UTC  

As Victus said, God doesn’t want a casual believer.

2018-06-15 21:05:51 UTC  

But I think you should expand on what you mean by “casual believer”.

2018-06-15 21:06:18 UTC  

I will of course say that I believe the one "true" church is Catholic. But it doesn't mean if you're Protestant that you're a turd

2018-06-15 21:06:38 UTC  

I'd rather see an atheist become a Lutheran or something than not at all

2018-06-15 21:07:14 UTC  

Also. If you find a large enough church, and don’t try to contribute I don’t think it matters what church you pick to sit in on.

2018-06-15 21:07:40 UTC  

Yeah, it might be good to attend services at several different ones just to get a feel for it

2018-06-15 21:08:15 UTC  

Just go in and sit towards the back or in clusters of other people. Sort of hide in plain sight.

2018-06-15 21:17:22 UTC  

Where I'm from if you go into a large Catholic church people probably won't even notice you.

2018-06-15 22:03:54 UTC  

I'm Baptist so...

2018-06-15 23:42:44 UTC  

Then you know it's the truth, you go into a Baptist church and everyone is gonna notice you and welcome you. You go into a Catholic Church and everyone is kneeling and praying and probably wouldn't notice a bombing raid

2018-06-15 23:51:12 UTC  

I agree

2018-06-15 23:52:09 UTC  

I am primarily Southern Baptist and it is pretty much a sin for there to be no one to greet you at the door and socialize with you

2018-06-15 23:53:09 UTC  

Southern hospitality

2018-06-16 00:02:14 UTC  

Indeed

2018-06-16 00:03:57 UTC  

We kind of focus heavily on social events and reaching out to people on a personal level to get them to come to Christ. As well as the normal ways of spreading the faith

2018-06-16 00:12:43 UTC  

Our friend here is Czech so there may not be Baptists around, but there's probably Lutheran

2018-06-16 00:13:46 UTC  

I've never understood Lutherans

2018-06-16 00:15:54 UTC  

Because most of us super Protestants, aka Baptist, Methodist, Church of God, Presbyterian, and Church of the Nazarene don't consider them proper Protestants

2018-06-16 00:16:34 UTC  

They're technically the first Protestants. But that puts them a lot closer to Catholic than other Protestant churches

2018-06-16 00:17:16 UTC  

This is the difference between American Protestantism and European Protestantism

2018-06-16 00:17:25 UTC  

Yeah

2018-06-16 00:18:27 UTC  

Then again American Catholicism and European Catholicism (Roman Catholic) are different too