When I began my spiritual journey I did not know where it would lead me, I did not know where I would end up. I had been born a Christian of the Protestant school of thought and was raised under the guidelines of Anti-Catholicism and Sola Scriptura.
Eventually I grew tired of the Protestant understanding of God, Jesus, and Holy Scripture. I began to have doubts and at a young age that changed and I became a Unitarian-Universalist at the age of 13. Under this new ideology I began to develop myself politically and theologically, but I still held to my personal believe in the salvation of souls through Christ Jesus, but I had my doubts in the ways that men preached this belief.
I began to live a hard and immoral life at the age of 17, and eventually I was at odds with my mother and I chose to leave home, becoming an atheistic socialist and a fervent opponent of George W. Bush.
God was nowhere to be found it seemed and I did not fear consequences for my actions, eventually I came to accept my irrational and selfish behavior as the norm.
I was led back to God when I met a Jewish man named Ronen. He nurtured me back to God and I became an Orthodox Jew, and eventually I became more liberal and became a Reform Jew. I met a Jewish woman and we were going to get married.
Things did not work out I'm afraid and that led me back to searching.
One day my friend asked me to go to the Catholic church with him, and for some reason I was compelled to go to confession and ask forgiveness for the sins I had done, and I recieved absolution from a Namibian priest, and it was that experience that led me back to Christ.
But not as a Roman Catholic...
This inspired me to look at the roots of the faith of my ancestors, all of my ancestors were Christians of one hue or another and I was lost in a wilderness of options. But what was true? What did God want me to find?
Orthodoxy...
I have met an Orthodox woman who I believe the Lord led me to, but the interest in His church had come before this moment. I was deeply fascinated by Russian Prime Minister (then President) Vladimir Putin and I learned about his faith and the faith of the Russian people. I found that the faith of the Russians and the faith of the Apostles was separated only by language, and church had it's roots in the days of Christ.
May Christ lead me deeper into this journey and may he bless all those who read these words and seek him. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Eventually I grew tired of the Protestant understanding of God, Jesus, and Holy Scripture. I began to have doubts and at a young age that changed and I became a Unitarian-Universalist at the age of 13. Under this new ideology I began to develop myself politically and theologically, but I still held to my personal believe in the salvation of souls through Christ Jesus, but I had my doubts in the ways that men preached this belief.
I began to live a hard and immoral life at the age of 17, and eventually I was at odds with my mother and I chose to leave home, becoming an atheistic socialist and a fervent opponent of George W. Bush.
God was nowhere to be found it seemed and I did not fear consequences for my actions, eventually I came to accept my irrational and selfish behavior as the norm.
I was led back to God when I met a Jewish man named Ronen. He nurtured me back to God and I became an Orthodox Jew, and eventually I became more liberal and became a Reform Jew. I met a Jewish woman and we were going to get married.
Things did not work out I'm afraid and that led me back to searching.
One day my friend asked me to go to the Catholic church with him, and for some reason I was compelled to go to confession and ask forgiveness for the sins I had done, and I recieved absolution from a Namibian priest, and it was that experience that led me back to Christ.
But not as a Roman Catholic...
This inspired me to look at the roots of the faith of my ancestors, all of my ancestors were Christians of one hue or another and I was lost in a wilderness of options. But what was true? What did God want me to find?
Orthodoxy...
I have met an Orthodox woman who I believe the Lord led me to, but the interest in His church had come before this moment. I was deeply fascinated by Russian Prime Minister (then President) Vladimir Putin and I learned about his faith and the faith of the Russian people. I found that the faith of the Russians and the faith of the Apostles was separated only by language, and church had it's roots in the days of Christ.
May Christ lead me deeper into this journey and may he bless all those who read these words and seek him. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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