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I love praising Jesus with all Christians. Jesus said "wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them." (Mat 18:20). An Evangelical lady approached me saying "I love your music and your heart for the Lord. What church do you attend?" I said "I'm Catholic." There was a long pause and her face fell. Then the questions started Are Catholics Christian? ... Is the Catholic Church Bible based? ...Why are you guys so into Mary?... Isn't Jesus about relationship and not religion? ... Don't you guys think you can work your way into heaven? ... and so on.
Some good Christians are surprised to learn that the Catholic Mass is all Bible, that the Rosary is a meditation on the life of Jesus, and that we have an Altar Call at every Mass (Communion). My Evangelical friends see that I've surrendered all that I am to Jesus and say I am "born again." Some have trouble reconciling the life they see in me with what they've been told about the Catholic Church.
There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church, which is, of course, quite a different thing. (Bishop Fulton Sheen)
Christianity is at a critical point. Never in western civilization, have Christians faced such persecution for trying to defend the unborn, the sanctity of marriage, and our teens from the media's normalization of sex, drugs, and violence. I fear the worst is to come. We've got to cooperate like never before, and it will be easier if we understand each other. I wrote a song about it.
Here I lay Catholicism at the feet of my Evangelical friends. I am not trying to gloss over differences but I hope we will love one another as He has loved us (Jn 13:34). I am not an apologist. I am simply a Catholic guy responding to Jesus' prayer "that they may all be one, as you Father, are in me and I am in you." (Jn 17:21) "Let us not give up meeting together... let us encourage one another." (Heb 10:25)
"I have a dream...when we let freedom ring... all of God's children... Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands." (Martin Luther King, "I have a dream," Washington D.C., Aug. 28, 1963.)
Lord Jesus, let Your prayer of unity for Christians
become a reality, in Your way, we have absolute confidence
that you can bring your people together,
we give you absolute permission to move, Amen
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