The Personal Journey of Faith
After years of seeking and searching I have come to the following conclusion:
“When it comes to honoring the crucified Christ, I am a Catholic; when it comes to following the risen Lord, I am an Anabaptist. When it comes to organized religion, I am a Mormon; when it comes to this world, I am a Franciscan. When it comes to the longsuffering of God, I am a Universalist; when it comes to loving my neighbor, I am a Quaker. When it comes to personal devotion, I am a Baptist, when it comes to sacrificial living, I am Amish. When it comes to loving the poor, I am of the Salvation Army; when it comes to dedicated zeal, I am a Jehovah’s Witness.
Engaging with Different Traditions
When it comes to communion, I am a Lutheran; and when it comes to freewill, I am Arminian. When it comes to accepting all people in His name, I am Episcopalian; when it comes to worship, I am a born-again Evangelical.
Independent Discipleship
But when it comes to eternal salvation, rising to new life, putting on the new Man, yielding to the Spirit, and producing the fruit of agape love to the sole glory of the One True God . . . I am an independent disciple of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ living subjectively through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.”
