Bass on Nostr: I came from atheism to the Church of Christ which did a great job training me up in ...

I came from atheism to the Church of Christ which did a great job training me up in apologetics, I'm very thankful for their investment. I went to college and discovered the Calvinists while doing some free speech lawn witnessing, and they invited me to go door to door with them. In college, i was attending a spirit filled methodist church for missions stuff downtown, CRU which met weekly on campus, the calvinist baptist church for door to door on saturdays, and a church of christ on sundays. Eventually i met my wife at a charismatic church and i served there exclusively for 13 years as their street evangelism lead and childrens minister while retaining an ever increasing reformed systematic theology. Went to a local reformed seminary, and eventually went presbyterian when i accepted baptizing babies, which was a very slippery slope into church history lol.

I too have sympathies for my protestant brothers as i remember holding most of these theological positions and genuinely loving Jesus. I changed my mind so many times in those few years it was dizzying, but it helped me recognize that unless there was some form of normative interpretational authority, we would be spinning in circles in the dark aimlessly forever. Around that time, I feel the Lord was leading me to consider the Orthodox. I had so many objections to the typical stuff, and would drop the research out of anger, always to have the issue answered in a round about way weeks later, causing me to continue the hunt.